Israel fires missiles at western metropolis

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli missiles focused a western Syrian metropolis on Sunday wounding three Syrian troopers, Syrian state media reported.

The official information company SANA, citing a army supply, mentioned the missiles had been fired at Masyaf in Hama province at daybreak. Syria’s air defenses shot a number of of them down.

No deaths had been reported. Photographs from SANA present that the missiles might have landed on farmland.

There was no fast remark from Israel, which has staged a whole bunch of strikes on targets in Syria over time. Nevertheless, it hardly ever acknowledges or discusses such operations. It says it targets bases of Iran-allied militias, notably Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group. Hezbollah has fighters deployed in Syria and combating on the aspect of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s authorities forces. Israel additionally says it targets arms shipments believed to be sure for the militias.

Israel beforehand attacked Masyaf in Could and August 2022 killing 5 individuals and wounding two. In line with the Britain-based opposition battle monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the assaults focused weapons depots belonging to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and Iran-backed militias.