The Israeli satellite imaging company ImageSat International released satellite images of an Iranian site destroyed by Israel last Tuesday in the city of Masyaf in northwestern Syria, according the Israeli Haaretz daily.
Syrian state media reported on Tuesday that Israeli jets attacked military targets in the northwestern Syrian city of Hama, adding that one person was killed and 12 others were wounded.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, warplanes entered through Lebanese airspace and targeted Iranian positions. A military source told the SANA state news agency that Syrian air defenses intercepted several missiles over the nearby town of Wadi Al Uyun.
Civilians in the area reported hearing explosions and seeing smoke rise from nearby buildings. Additional strikes were reported in the coastal town of Banias, the site of research centers and military installations.
Syrian Air Forces banned the Iranian forces and allied Shiite militias from using its facilities and hangars in most of its military airbases, such a move followed a series of Israeli strikes in the last few months, source told Zaman al-Wasl.
Since April, more than 40 Iranians, including senior army officers, killed in Israel’s attacks that targeted T4 airport, Dabaa airport in Homs province and the Brigade 47 and Hama military airport in Hama province.
Haaretz reported that the Israeli military struck more than 200 targets and fired 800 missiles and mortar shells over the past year-and-a-half, a senior IDF official said Tuesday, adding that the IDF is working intensively to target Iranian weapons convoys and targets in Syria.
AFP
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