IDF said to hit weapons depot near Syrian port city of Lattakia

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

The IDF allegedly struck a weapon depot near the Syrian port city of Lattakia overnight.

According to the pro-government Sham FM radio, Syrian air defenses worked to confront “targets” over the sea in the Lattakia area. The station later reported that firefighters were working to extinguish a blaze in the coastal city of Jableh, just south of Lattakia.

Opposition media in Syria reported that the target of the strike was a weapons depot.

Footage posted to social media showed the aftermath of the strike.

The IDF has vowed recently to prevent all weapons shipments from Iran to the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, which often are delivered via Syria.

Some Syrian opposition outlets claim that the targeted warehouse was inside Russia’s Khmeimim Airbase.

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