Death toll update | Ten people including six civilians killed due to Israeli airstrikes on sites in Homs and its countryside
Homs province: Rescue teams found the bodies of two people, as a result of the targeting of a two-storey building and a basement near the municipal stadium by Israeli strikes after midnight on Tuesday-Wednesday, bringing the death toll to ten; six civilians, two of non-Syrian nationality and two whose identities are unknown because their bodies were turned into pieces, in addition to the injury of others, as a result of the Israeli bombing.
According to the sources, the basement was inhabited by three university students, who were killed in the targeting, the first floor was inhabited by a woman and her son, who is the owner of the building and the third floor was inhabited by non-Syrian renters, and it is not known whether they were Iranian, Lebanese or other nationality consultants.
The airstrikes also targeted Al-Mazraah area near Homs refinery, Al-Auras area near the municipal stadium and near the technical services building, while search operations continue, amid information about other dead.
SOHR documented nine attacks in 2024: six airstrikes and three rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 26 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles. These strikes killed 30 combatants and injured seven others. The fatalities are distributed as follows:
• Six Iranian members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
• Four members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
• Three Iraqi persons.
• Seven Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
• Three Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen.
• Five unidentified people
• Two of non-Syrian nationality.
In addition, those attacks left seven civilians, including a woman and a child dead.
The attacks are distributed regionally as follows:
Damascus and Rif Dimashq: Five attacks.
Daraa: Three attacks.
Homs: One attack.
SOHR would like to point out that Israel sometimes targeted more than one province in a single attack