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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Three pro-Iran fighters killed in Israeli strikes near Damascus: monitor
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Israeli air strikes killed three pro-Iran fighters as they hit sites belonging to the powerful Lebanese Hezbollah group near the Syrian capital Damascus, a war monitor says.
Israel has struck Syria several times in the past month as regional tensions simmer over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
“Three non-Syrian pro-Iran fighters were killed in Israeli strikes on farms and other sites belonging to Hezbollah near Akraba and Sayyida Zeinab,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor.
SOHR, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale.
Akraba houses a military airport, the monitor said, more than 10 kilometers from Damascus International Airport.
Israel also struck Syrian air defense sites in the country’s southern Sweida province, says the monitor.
Syrian state media says Israeli air strikes had hit military sites in southern Syria, causing material damage.
“At approximately 22:50 pm today, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the direction of Baalbek in Lebanon, targeting some military points in the southern region, causing some material losses,” official news agency SANA says, quoting a military source.
The Times of Israel Community.