BEIRUT, Lebanon: Syria´s health minister said on Monday that overnight Israeli strikes killed 18 people in central Hama province, updating earlier figures, while a war monitor gave a higher death toll for the raids on military sites.
The Israeli military, which has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since its civil war started in 2011, declined to comment on the latest reported attack.“The number of martyrs of the brutal Israeli aggression reached 18 martyrs and 37 wounded,” Syria´s Health Minister Hassan al-Ghabash told AFP.
This was “one of the most violent Israeli attacks” in Syria in years, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.Earlier, official news agency SANA, citing a medical source, said the number of dead “in the Israeli aggression on a number of sites on the outskirts of Masyaf” was “16 martyrs and 36 wounded, including six critically”.
SANA citing a military source reported that at “around 11:20 pm (2020 GMT) on Sunday, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack” from the direction of northwest Lebanon “targeting a number of military sites in the central region”.
Air defences “shot down some” of the missiles, SANA reported.The Observatory war monitor reported “intense Israeli strikes” overnight, providing an updated toll of 26 dead including “five civilians, four soldiers and intelligence personnel and 14 Syrians working with pro-Iran groups”.
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