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Sunday, October 6, 2024
Alleged Israeli strike hits Iranian car factory in central Syria
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An Israeli strike hits a car factory in central Syria, a war monitor says, in the latest such strike in the country or its border with Lebanon in recent days.
The raids strike an empty Iranian car factory in the central region of Homs, causing only material damage, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel — which rarely comments on individual strikes in Syria — is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes mainly targeting army positions and Iran-backed fighters including from Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group.
#BREAKING An explosion heard in a factory in Homs: Syrian media pic.twitter.com/wXnilH3D78
— Guy Elster (@guyelster) October 6, 2024
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
