Illustrative image. Source: the Israeli Air Force.
At last 15 Syrian troops were killed or wounded early on October 25, when the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) carried out a series of airstrikes against positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the southern Syrian governorate of Daraa in response to an attack that targeted the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The IDF said that it had identified two rocket launches from Syria that had landed in open areas late on October 24, and that it had responded with artillery fire at the sources of the launches. Israel did not accuse the SAA of firing the two rockets, which set off air raid sirens in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
In a further response, the IDF said the next day that its fighter jets “struck military infrastructure and mortar launchers” belonging to the SAA.
The Syrian official SANA news agency, citing Syrian military sources, said that eight soldiers were killed and another seven were wounded in an overnight Israeli strike on Daraa. The agency added that damage was also caused to the targeted positions.
According to Syrian media reports, the IDF strikes targeted a radar site as well as ammunition depots and barracks located near the towns of Izraa and Qarfa in the northern Daraa countryside. These positions belong to the 12th Armored Brigade of the 5th Armored Division, one of the SAA’s largest formations in the southern region.
Following the strikes, the IDF dropped leaflets over Daraa warning that it will hold the command of the 12th Armored Brigade responsible for any attack from Syrian territory.
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The rocket attacks on the Golan Heights were most likely carried out by Palestinian fighters as a form of protest to Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.
This was the second confirmed indirect fire attack to target the occupied Syrian heights since the October 7 Hamas-led surprise operation against Israel which caused the war. On October 10, a mortar attack was reported. Israel responded back then by attacking civilian airports near the capital, Damascus, and in the northern governorate of Aleppo.
With the death of eight SAA troops, the death toll in Syria from Israel strikes during the war on Gaza has risen to ten. Two civilian meteorologists were reportedly killed in the October 22 strikes on Damascus International Airport.
The war in Gaza has already led to clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah on the Lebanon front and a wave of attacks by the so-called Islamic Resistance in Iraq against United States bases in the country and neighboring Syria. There was an attempt by the Houthis (Ansar Allah) to target Israel with missiles and drones launched from Yemen.
The SAA will not likely respond to the deadly Israeli strikes due to the extremely difficult political, military and economic situation in war-torn Syria.
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israel is such a good, friendly neighbour, right? who wouldn’t want to border israel?
why the he’ll is isreal killing and attacking it’s neighbor syria every other day. war crimes again.
the zionazi beast thrives on carnage and blood
because as we know those gangsters are above the law, some say syria can’t respond, well they can and so can iran, what are the israelis going to do attack them lol!
sad to see how the sickly syrian state gets beaten and stepped on.
russia could help, of course, but their ziono-phile president wouldn‘t. he and his foreign minister instead prefer to insult the palestinians with a renewed call for a 2-state solution like the last 75 years. meaning: go to jordan or get killed.
the us and nato, are being drained. patience dave, patience
russia can’t do everything, what they could do is provide more sophisticated weapons to syria and it’s allies.
russia isn’t responsible of solving everyone’s problems, i would love it if they just drop deplomacy and kick the shit out of the zio-western alliance … but that also means an exponential increase of the bloodshed of innocents in areas where the war didn’t touch yet … at the same time i do not accept the continious shedding of palestinians blood …
the current situation is extremely sad and difficult.
if the muslim world does not strike and remove the head of the zionazi viper now, as the brazen genocide of palestine goes on unabated and is celebrated by the filth in the “west”, then the muslim world will suffer the same fate as the palestinians. ussa is in collapse mode, natostan is defeated in rump ukraine; the time to destroy the anglozionazi beast is now.
the muslim countries surrounding israel needs formal public nuclear protection to guarantee any war with israel stays conventional. otherwise they risk getting nuked.
in the 1950’s korea war, after usa contemplated using nuclear weapons against north korea, russia said it would use nukes against us forces in korea if us used nuclear weapons. so the war stayed a conventional war.
most arab nations have no guts, if ever there was a time to go to war with those zionist thugs it’s now.
rf by sa mala zastať sýrie, mali by začať zostreľovať tie lietadlá ktoré útočia na sýriu!!! rf má na to vybavenie a aj prostriedky!!! izrael je čím ďalej tým viac a viac agresívny!!! treba to zastaviť teraz a hneď!!! svetu mier!!!
i hope russia deploys more forces in syria to bolster the contingent. china should send a carrier to the middle east as well. maybe park a few strategic bombers in iran and definitely give iran the s-400
if syria puts up with this, it’s their own fault.
although at the moment it looks more like israel wants to drag syria into the conflict.
thus, israel will continue to cheerfully terrorize syria’s airfields and continue to kill people in the process.
escalating the war is playing right into the zio-western hands.
i would maximise air defense amd missiles interception, if i was in syrias’s place, and wait this storm out.
the west is beyond critical decline, and without it the zionist state is a parasite ready for removal. right now, escalation is a gift that will solve their economic/political/social/energy situation … not to mention the countless bloodshed of innocents.
zio pigs are bloodthirsty…those animals …