The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Israeli strikes kill and wound more than 80 members of the regime forces and Iranians since mid-April, and the Syrian regime responds by killing about 400 Syrian civilians including more than 170 children and women through about 31000 air and ground strikes

Since mid-April 2019, until Wednesday, the 12th of June 2019, the Israeli forces have carried out 7 attacks on sites and points of the regime forces, their loyal militias, the Iranian forces, and their loyal gunmen in several areas in Syria, which killed 31 of them, they are: 25 Iranians, the Syrian, and non-Syria militias loyal to them, 6 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, and more than 50 were injured, in addition to destroying ammunition depots, weapons, and machines, where the last targeting took place after midnight Tuesday-Wednesday against Tal al-Hara, which is considered the highest hill in the western countryside of Daraa and in the demolished Al-Quneitra in the southern countryside for Quneitra, where Tal al-Hara has air-defense radars and batteries, also the Israeli warplanes bombed on the 3rd of June 2019 the T4 Airbase east of Homs, in which there are warehouses and military bases belong to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, where at least 5 people including one soldier pf the regime forces were killed, also 10 at least were killed, they are 7 believed to be of non-Syrian nationalities were killed during strikes targeted the southwest of Damascus on the 2nd of June 2019, and 3 Syrians of the regime forces were killed in the Israeli strikes that targeted the Quneitra countryside at dawn on the same day.

In May last month of the year 2019, the Israeli forces targeted on the 27th of May a military vehicle of the regime’s air defense in Tal al-Shaar area in the mid-sector countryside of Al-Quneitra, killing an officer and a member, and injuring another member of the regime forces, and on the 18th of May, the Israeli strikes targeted the Brigade 90 located in al-Kom area in the northeastern countryside of Quneitra, in which forces of the Lebanese Hezbollah are positioned, and they targeted on the 17th of the same month al-Kiswah area southwest of Damascus in which there are warehouses for Iranians and the Lebanese Hezbollah and air defense bases, while at least 14 were killed of the Iranians and their loyal groups, they are 9 of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities residing on the Syrian territory, while the other 5 include at least 3 Iranians, and all of them were killed in the Israeli bombardment that targeted the Accounting School in Masyaf city and the medium-range missiles development center in al-Zawi village and al-Tala’ee camp in Sheikh Ghadban village in Masyaf countryside in mid-April 2019.

The Syrian regime -in turn- did not stand by, where it gave its orders to the airbases and put its ground forces on alert; to begin with its warplanes and helicopters the process of responding to the Israeli shelling, but -as usual- the response was against the Syrian civilians, where since late April 2019 until the moment, it carried out about 6250 airstrikes through its warplanes and helicopters, in addition to more than 24600 ground strikes, which caused human massacres, where the Syrian Observatory has documented since the 20th of April 2019, until Wednesday the 12th of June 2019, the death of 399 civilians including 94 children and 77 women, they were killed in the air raids, the fall of barrel bombs, shells, and missiles targeting the countryside of Aleppo, Hama, Idlib, and Latakia.