36 Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli attack near Aleppo: Organization

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 36 Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Syria’s Aleppo province on Friday.

According to the AFP news agency, the British-based organization said that the Israeli attack targeted the area near the rocket depot of the Lebanese group Hezbollah.

The organization added that “at least 36 soldiers were killed and dozens injured” in the airstrike.

Syria’s state news agency SANA said civilians, including military personnel, were killed and wounded in the early morning attack.

A Syrian military source told SANA that at around 1:45 PM local time, Israel launched an air strike from the direction of Atria, southeast of Aleppo, in which civilians and military personnel were killed and wounded. ‘

Asked by AFP to confirm the attack, the Israeli military said it would not “comment on foreign media reports.”

Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against various targets in Syria since the civil war began in 2011, mainly targeting Iranian-backed forces, including militants from Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, as well as Syrian army positions. has been made.

Israel’s attacks in Lebanon and Syria have increased since the recent offensive on Gaza.

According to the Ministry of Health, more than 32,000 people, most of whom are women and children, have died in Israel’s aggression against Gaza.

Israel has been exchanging fire on its northern border with Hamas’s ally Hezbollah on an almost daily basis since the Gaza war broke out, raising fears of a major regional conflict.

At least 346 people, mostly Hezbollah fighters, but also at least 68 civilians, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon over the past six months, according to AFP figures.

The fighting has also displaced tens of thousands of people in southern Lebanon and northern Israel, where the Israeli army says 10 of its soldiers and eight civilians have been killed.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has sent militants into Syria to support its ally, President Bashar al-Assad, since the uprising began in 2011.

According to Syrian state media, two people were injured in an airstrike on a residential building in the suburbs of Damascus on Thursday. The attack was also blamed on Israel.

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