Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A series of Israeli strikes hit the northern Syrian governorate of Aleppo early on March 29, claiming the lives of dozens of people.
A Syrian military official said in a statement to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) that a number of civilians and military personnel were killed after Israel and militant groups launched attacks against Aleppo.
The Israeli strikes targeted several areas in the countryside of Aleppo at about 1:45 a.m. local time [10:45 p.m. GMT], the unnamed official said, adding that the strikes coincided with drone attacks carried out from Idlib and western rural Aleppo by “terrorist group” targeting civilians in Aleppo and its surroundings.
However, the official did not mention a specific death toll or clarify whether the casualties were caused by the Israeli airstrikes or the attacks by militant groups.
“The aggression resulted in the martyrdom and injury of a number of civilians and military personnel and caused material losses to public and private property,” the official said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Israeli strikes targeted ammunition depots in the town of Jabrin close to Aleppo International Airport in the outskirts of the Aleppo city as well as military factories in the town of al-Safira in the southern Aleppo countryside. It also reported explosions at the town of Kafr Jum in the western countryside of the governorate.
The London-based monitoring group put the death toll from the Israeli strikes at 42. However, Reuters reported, citing two security sources, that the strikes claimed the lives of 38 civilians and military personnel, including five fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The attack on Aleppo came hours after Israeli strikes hit the town of al-Bahdaliyah wounding two civilians late on March 28, according to the SANA.
Israel has significantly escalated its attacks on Syria since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hezbollah and other affiliated armed factions.
On March 26, at least 18 people, including an IRGC adviser, were killed when a series of strikes hit the government-held part of the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor. Damascus blamed the United States. However, the Pentagon denied responsibility, which left Israel as the only suspect.
The attack on Aleppo was a serious escalation by Israel. It may be the deadliest Israeli attack to target Syrian territory since the war of 1973.
Despite the high death toll, war-torn Syria will not likely respond directly against Israel as this could lead to a dangerous confrontation.
if syria, iran or hezbollah, who were all hit by the strikes to support al-qaeda in syria don’t attack israel now, then forget all of them. israel just declared war on islam during month of ramadan. go read what quran says in surah 17 – isra.
iran won’t declare war on the zionists, syria doesn’t have the strength to fight back, moscow just watches its ally receive cookies frequently, they aren’t even allowed to use the supposed s300 they bought, and hebollaz is going to destroy some more cameras of security
who gives a crap what the koran says
mohammad was a lying, murdering, child molesting, pedophile, thieving dune coon.
can you imagine letting some child mass murderers bomb your country two or three times every month?
yeah but also imagine running into a trap now, syria has it own goals and with support of syrian people, iran, hezbollah and russia they achieve their goals.
also, what have these animal jews achieved beside clearly making a statement that they support terrorists and terrorism? remember, the un security council votes for a gaza ceasefire 14 members support it and the us sit like a dog alone. 10 non-permanent members push that resolution.
well i am starting to wonder what those plan are, they should have taken terrorist infested idlib by now.
the first goal is to regain their land from kurdish terrorists and from wahhabi terrorists.
okay, let’s be fair here and not imagine things in our heads. syria needs iran, russia and hezbollah help and support. what does that say about the state they are in right now? they can start war with “israel”, turkey, us and most likely nato?
remember syria was done for before iran came to help. trust me you don’t have to poke syrians with “israel” and wahhabis.
it’s been nearly a decade. they are showing how they are beyond weak and ineffectual, at best. far more likely that zionists have compromised large swathes of the government, also demonstrating why so many irgc liaisons get killed. the simplest explanation is that assad and some high ranking officials are in on it, and there to always deflect away from decisive actions. rebels in a civil war you hope for peace with is one thing, outright foreign military camping out is another.
i fully understand some people are unhappy about the events in syria, so am i.
but that doesn’t make me to say pointless things. are you really going to downplay “israel” which for their whole history poke their arab neighbors to attack in order to get the support from the west to launch attacks?
“israel” itself is not the main problem, the us will attack syria, turkey wants n-syria, nato for years saying they want assad gone so they happy to invade syria.
i’m saying that it looks like assad is an israeli/western agent. that isn’t deflecting from the crimes that israel commits but saying he is an accessory to those crimes. they know that they can’t control the entire syrian population, but they can deflect the efforts and intentions of syrians by sabotaging their leadership. this exact thing has been happening in the us for decades.
i would like to say some things, remember yemenis people (houthis) and lebanese (hezbollah) history – it was painful but they came victorious at the end.
you are not helping in any form by undermining syrian government, at times like these they need support and not to see people allying themselves with their enemies.
syria is not in a state to start a full scale war with another country – and we all know they wouldn’t be fighting one country but the whole nato force.
– sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war.
right, if someone kills the muslims kids and goats who will they be left to sleep with?
the israeli genocidal jewish supremacist psychopaths are assisting isis and other terrorists in syria by attacking the syrian army in coordination with the terrorists.
russia forbids them to retaliate, that’s the only reason, the rest is just smoke and mirrors
more than one leader has given assad one sort of mason’s handshake or another. is his wife an honest to goodness western asset? something is obviously very wrong in a country where they allow foreign occupying militaries to plunder their resources and terrorize/kill the people, and then talk about how they are resisting oppression. more like bought and paid for like basically everyone in important positions in the us gov. more liars lying.
some say that but why would they? i don’t by it.
because there are a lot of russian jews in israel and i invite you to find out who ewt berel lazar, abrhamovic etc, 2) why did they put a patrol on the golan but it continues to bomb? 3) why in 2017 putin repatriated the body of an israeli soldier who died in 1982 to syria, at a time when hezbollah was fighting against isis, are russian soldiers looking for the remains of an israeli soldier who died in 1980?
putin thinks he can be friends with the zionists and the american dogs, the turks, this is the biggest mistake he is making.
turkey sells drones and weapons to the nazis, while zionist scum bomb syria to support their terrorist pedophiles.
this base in golan is just to enjoy the zionite missiles swinging by your heads, while looking for amnesties for terrorists fleeing from homs.
syria needs to finally attack the khazar entity and make the zionazi reptile pay for this constant murder and terror. let the apartheid entity illegally occupying semitic palestine bleed until the zionist poison can bleed no more. humanity can no longer afford to indulge these monstrous hollow cost b.s. vermin.
“the jew screams in pain as it slices your throat.” polish saying.
the allies are kicking some assad!!!
i get you might not be native english speaker (so am i) but what were you try to say? assad is a name and even so… weren’t you clown acting to support syrians? nothing happened to assad here but you clearly saying assad is support by his people. by saying things like “kicking some assad”.
also your “allies” in this report are isis and “israel”… lmfao, broken dog shit bot.
i say this much, just read any hts/fsa/al-qaeda/isis statements over this 6 months. none of support palestinians (sunni arabs btw lmfao, shi’a are supporting palestinians the most – turkey wants money more than anything else in this world clearly as well)… fsa/hts/isis none of them dare to attack the us, “israel” or other nato members at all or to even make a statement in support of palestinians.
again it goes to show who pays them.
hitlers white blue eyes israelis have united nations licence to kill humans which britain,germany,france and usa approved.
emergence israel attacks palistinian country every day attacking lebanon country and syrian country.just to spill blood.
bummer that some modern russian ballistic missiles don’t “accidentally” fall in the lap of the syrian army. would be nice to wipe out the israhell air force bases.
when you add up the fake corcus hall, and lack of actual support, the arithmetic points in a different direction. i wonder what iran gave to get the hypersonic tech. it must’ve been a lot. the masons have their slime satanism everywhere. the few african countries who resisted the ziomasonic network were whacked and replaced, and haiti is obvious. they’re obviously getting ready to unleash more evil on the world. no serious retaliation against otan for the weapons in ukraine.