UPDATE: ISRAEL LAUNCHES AIR STRIKES IN SYRIA
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At a time of increased regional tensions following the Gaza war, Israel launched pre-dawn airstrikes near the Syrian capital on Tuesday, according to state television, citing a military source.
Israel has targeted a military site near the town of Kanaker that also held members of Hezbollah, an armed force supported by Iran in Lebanon, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor headquartered in Britain.
According to the official Syrian news agency SANA, “the Israeli enemy carried out air strikes from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of sites in the Damascus countryside” around 4:35 a.m. local time (01:35 GMT).
Without naming the target, it quoted an unidentified military source as saying that the strikes only resulted in “material damage.”
Israel is reticent to discuss specific strikes on Syria, but it has made it clear that it would not permit its fiercest adversary, Iran, to increase its influence there. Iran supports President Bashar al-Assad’s administration.
After escalating hostilities with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Israel reportedly launched its first airstrike in Syria this year.
Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian territory over the course of the country’s more than ten-year civil war, mainly focusing on positions held by the Syrian army and troops backed by Iran.
Israel and Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, have been engaged in frequent cross-border gunfire exchanges in southern Lebanon in recent months.
Tehran in December accused Israel of a strike in Syria that killed Razi Moussavi, a senior commander in the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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