After the Israeli raids that targeted sites near Aleppo International Airport, Iran condemned those strikes.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in press statements today, Friday, that the Israeli attack on Aleppo constitutes a “serious threat to regional and international peace.”
“Dangerous adventure”
He also considered the aforementioned attack “a miserable attempt by Israel to expand the crisis in the region to compensate for its failure in Gaza.”
In addition, he stressed that this requires international action to stop what he called a “dangerous adventure.”
This came after 42 people were killed earlier today, including 6 from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, in Israeli raids that targeted sites near Aleppo Airport, along with 36 Syrian military forces, according to what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Yesterday, Thursday, Israeli raids also targeted sites of factions loyal to Iran and Hezbollah in the Damascus countryside, wounding five Syrian “militants” working with Hezbollah.
The Revolutionary Guard gathers its officers
Since the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, on October 7, Israeli strikes have escalated on Syrian positions belonging to Hezbollah or a number of Iranian-backed militias, as more than six Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers were killed in suspected Israeli raids since December. The past. This prompted him to reduce the deployment of his senior officers on Syrian soil, and he planned to rely more on the factions allied with him to maintain his influence there, according to what was previously reported by Reuters.
While the number of Israeli strikes since the beginning of 2024 has reached 25, 17 of which are air and 8 are ground, according to the Observatory’s statistics.
These strikes resulted in the injury and destruction of about 49 targets, including weapons and ammunition depots, headquarters, centers, and vehicles.
It also led to the killing of 43 Syrian soldiers, in addition to wounding 21 others with varying injuries.
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