Death toll update | Three civilians including woman and her son killed in Israeli airstrikes on the vicinity of Aleppo international airport
The number of deaths due to Israeli airstrikes on the vicinity of Al-Nayrab military airport near Aleppo international airport, has risen to eight, where the airstrikes hit farmlands between Al-Thahabyeh and Al-Sheikh Sa’ad villages.
The fatalities are as follows:
• Five militiaman working with Iran, including a Syrian member, in addition to his wife, his son and his nephew were killed.
Israel targeted the Syrian territory 45 times since the war on Gaza in October, where SOHR has documented 28 attacks: 28 airstrikes, 17 rocket attacks by ground forces. Those attacks destroyed 28 targets and left 78 combatants and two civilians dead; the fatalities of combatants are as follows:
• 14 members of regime force and their proxy militias.
• 22 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
• Ten Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
• 32 of non-Syrian Iranian-backed militias, including three members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
• Two of the Islamic Jihadist
SOHR documented 76 attacks in 2023: 51 airstrikes and 25 rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 154 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles. These strikes killed 152 combatants and injured 154 others. The fatalities are distributed as follows:
• 40 members of regime forces, including officers.
• 63 Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen.
• Seven members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
• 14 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
• 26 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
• Two members of “Al-Jihad Al-Islami” organisation.
In addition, those attacks left four men, two women and a child dead and other civilians injured.
The attacks are distributed regionally as follows:
• Damascus and Rif Dimashq: 30 attacks.
• Al-Quneitera: 18 attacks.
• Hama: two attacks.
• Tartus: three attacks.
• Aleppo: nine attacks.
• Al-Suwaidaa: five attacks.
• Daraa: 13 attacks.
• Homs: four attacks.
• Deir Ezzor: three attacks.
SOHR would like to point out that Israel sometimes targeted more than one province in a single attack.