SOHR: Two die of wounds in Israeli strike on Syria

Two pro-regime militia members reportedly died from injuries sustained in an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian port city of Latakia on Tuesday morning, a human rights monitor reported on Wednesday.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Wednesday said that they had documented “the killing of two members of the armed pro-regime force.”

“The two dead were seriously injured, before they died of their wounds at Latakia National Hospital,” SOHR added.

An Israeli air strike hit the Syrian port of Latakia on Tuesday; the second such attack on the key facility this month, according to Syrian state media.

Earlier in November, three soldiers and two Syrian fighters affiliated with Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah were killed in Israeli strikes, according to SOHR. They attacked the port of Latakia again in December, which hit containers and ignited massive fires.

Four others were killed in October; one Syrian soldier and three pro-Iran fighters.

Israel frequently carries out strikes in Syria, targeting Iran-affiliated militias, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah group which supports the Syrian side, in what it says is an effort to prevent them from securing further ground along its borders.

Hezbollah is fighting on the side of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces in the war, which started after a military crackdown on Arab Spring-inspired protests calling for his ousting.

Although Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes on regime-controlled areas of Syria over the course of its 10-year civil war, it rarely acknowledges them.

They have, however, said that they target bases belonging to the Iran-backed militias and attack arms shipments believed to be bound for the militias, AP reported.

 

 

SOURCE: Rudaw