Sixty-eight pro-Iran fighters were killed in Israeli airstrikes yesterday on the Syrian city of Palmyra, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor says.
Those killed in the strikes included 42 fighters from pro-Iran Syrian groups, 26 foreign fighters, most of them from the Iraqi Al-Nujaba movement, which is supported by Iran’s IRGC, and four from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the monitor says.
There was no immediate confirmation of the figures.
Yesterday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported that 36 people had been killed and 50 injured without identifying the dead.
The Israeli military declined to comment when asked about the attack.
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.
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