Syrian and Israeli media report air assaults on southern Deraa province concentrating on navy websites of former Bashar al-Assad regime.
Israeli navy plane have carried out assaults in Syria’s southern province of Deraa, in response to media stories and a monitoring group, within the newest assaults concentrating on navy positions of the previous Bashar al-Assad regime.
The state-run Syrian Arab Information Company (SANA) mentioned the assaults on Monday evening hit two cities within the north of Deraa, which is situated 103km (64 miles) south of the capital Damascus.
“Israeli occupation plane carried out a number of strikes on the environment of the cities of Jbab and Izraa within the north of Deraa,” SANA reported.
The UK-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights mentioned 17 strikes by Israeli fighter jets hit two navy positions situated within the cities: the previous regime’s Artillery Regiment 89 and the twelfth Brigade.
No casualties have been reported up to now, the observatory mentioned.
Israeli media outlet Channel 14 mentioned the air assaults focused al-Assad regime military outposts, weapons depots, radars, tanks and artillery that insurgent teams in Syria have been “making an attempt to take over”.
Because the overthrow of Syrian President al-Assad in December, Israel has carried out lots of of air strikes on targets in Syria.
In keeping with the Syrian Observatory, Israel’s navy carried out greater than 500 air assaults on targets in Syria between December 8 and December 31, 2024, and has carried out 21 documented assaults up to now this yr.
Most Israeli assaults have focused services and weapons as soon as held by the toppled regime’s forces in what Israel has mentioned is a bid to forestall navy property from falling into the arms of forces hostile to Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned final month that southern Syria have to be utterly demilitarised, warning additionally that his authorities wouldn’t settle for the presence of the forces of the brand new authorities in Damascus, headed by Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, close to Israeli territory.
Because the elimination of al-Assad, Israel’s navy has entered and brought management of territory inside a United Nations-patrolled buffer zone that has separated Israel and Syria within the occupied Golan Heights since 1974.
