73rd attack during this year | Israel targets positions in Rif Dimashq
Israeli aircraft carried out a second round of attacks on air defence positions in Rif Dimashq province.
Violent explosions were heard in the vicinity of Damascus, near Al-Zahirah and Bebilla areas, where regime forces’ air defence posts are located, while the Syrian air defences in Qasioun mountain attempted to respond the missiles.
In a related context, two regime soldiers were injured as a result of an Israeli bombardment targeted Tel Al-Sahen position in Al-Suwaidaa countryside.
At midnight on Thursday-Friday, SOHR reported that Israeli forces fired missiles on the area of Damascus International Airport a day after the airport started operating again after being out of service for 65 days since the Israeli attack on October 22.
Moreover, Israeli forces fired missiles on a checkpoint of a battalion of the Air Defence in Tel Sahn eastern of Al-Hueya Village in southern Al-Suwaydaa countryside.
SOHR documented 73 attacks in 2023: 49 airstrikes and 24 rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 143 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles. These strikes killed 120 combatants and injured 136 others. The fatalities are distributed as follows:
• 40 members of regime forces, including officers.
• 37 Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen.
• Seven members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
• Eight Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
• 24 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
• Two members of “Al-Jihad Al-Islami” organisation.
• Two Unidentified people.
In addition, those attacks left three men and a woman dead and other civilians injured.
The attacks are distributed regionally as follows:
• Damascus and Rif Dimashq: 30 attacks.
• Al-Qunaitrah: 17 attacks.
• Hama: two attacks.
• Tartus: three attacks.
• Aleppo: eight attacks.
• Al-Suwaidaa: five attacks.
• Daraa: 13 attacks.
• Homs: four attacks.
• Deir Ezzor: two attacks.
SOHR would like to point out that Israel sometimes targeted more than one province in a single attack