UPDATED: Several killed in Israeli strikes on Syria
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Multiple Israeli strikes on Syria’s Hama countryside late on Sunday killed at several civilians, Syrian state media reported, with sources saying the attacks targeted a major military research center.
Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians and soldiers, Israel has escalated its strikes on Iranian-backed militia targets in Syria and also struck Syrian army air defences and some Syrian forces.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, has given an updated death toll resulting from the Israeli strikes overnight across Syria. The death toll is now 25, up from 18 earlier.
The war monitor said among the people killed were “five civilians, four soldiers and intelligence personnel and 13 Syrians working with pro-Iran groups”. Three more bodies were unidentified, the observatory added.
The observatory described the Sunday night strike as “one of the most violent Israeli attacks” in Syria in years and said it was carried out with 14 missiles.
The Syrian state news agency is reporting that 16 people were killed. The Guardian has not yet independently verified these figures.
In the most high-profile attack on Syria since the war in Gaza began, suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in April, a strike that Iran said killed seven military advisers, including three senior commanders.
Photo: A file photo of an Israeli F-15 jet releasing a flare. Photo: EPA/MOHAMMED SABER
