Syrian and Israeli media report air assaults on southern Deraa province concentrating on army websites of former Bashar al-Assad regime.
Israeli army plane have carried out assaults in Syria’s southern province of Deraa, in accordance with media reviews and a monitoring group, within the newest assaults concentrating on army positions of the previous Bashar al-Assad regime.
The state-run Syrian Arab Information Company (SANA) stated the assaults on Monday evening hit two cities within the north of Deraa, which is positioned 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 stated 17 strikes by Israeli fighter jets hit two army positions positioned within the cities: the previous regime’s Artillery Regiment 89 and the twelfth Brigade.
No casualties have been reported up to now, the observatory stated.
Israeli media outlet Channel 14 stated the air assaults focused al-Assad regime military outposts, weapons depots, radars, tanks and artillery that insurgent teams in Syria had been “attempting 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.
Based on the Syrian Observatory, Israel’s army 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 amenities and weapons as soon as held by the toppled regime’s forces in what Israel has stated is a bid to forestall army property from falling into the fingers of forces hostile to Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated 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 removing of al-Assad, Israel’s army 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.