Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A series of Israeli strikes hit the southeastern entrance of the Syrian coastal city of Lattakia early on October 17, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
The strikes were launched from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, a military official said in a statement to the state-run news agency, adding that the attack wounded two civilians and caused damage to private properties close to the targeted area.
Videos posted to social media showed a series of large blasts and a fire at the targeted area, which is known as el-Yahudiyah.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group of unclear funding, said the Israeli strikes “targeted a weapons depot.”
Israel has escalated its attacks on Syria since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
After expanding operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon last month, the Israeli military announced that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Recent Israeli strikes on Syria claimed the lives of dozens of civilians. Still, the war-torn country has so far refrained from responding, likely to avoid a dangerous confrontation.
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translation for slower readers. russia’s khmeimim airbase will be destroyed at any time if pesky russians dare to support iran or attack the american aq proxies. as for the clown duo putin & lavrov, they will not even be able to explain to their russian sheep/citizens why israel has not been listed as an enemy country. after 15 years of killing syrian civilians, assad’s soldiers, not to mention the bombing of embassies and other war crimes.
israel i s desperate, trying to drag their patsy us into the game. but noones playing . but the empire is crubling , so they bide their time. israel will be delt with. russian strikes on hts, probably chew terrorist proxies upset the chews
you forgot sergei lavrov’s “fm lavrov: russia’s goals in ukraine identical to israel’s goals in gaza” (2023)… “putin apologises for lavrov’s hitler remarks, israel’s pm says” (2022)… forget the fact that russian blood has been spilt in syria for more than 5 years with the u$/i$raeli duo actively murdering russian troops in “support” of syria?!!!… globalist$ just being global(s) at their plebs expense…
that is the fact.
if amschel rothschild were alive today he would be so proud of family’s progeny that made the russian goyim controlled apparatchiks possible!…
shlomo’s enemies are multiplying by the day. he doesn’t need any more. he has already bitten off far more than he can chew.
do you wanna put your money on that, that won’t happen?
patience, patience, the us will lose again. they never win
oooh no air defense?
no air defense against israel in syria since sep 18, 2018
where is poutine? having an ally like russia is like having a wolf in a henhouse
for sure there is a secret treat betwenn putin and dumboyahu for the attacks in syria…..the 5th column in the kremlin has do it again
r.f.’s airbases, ‘golan watchtowers’, missile ‘defence’ system and overall presence in syria serves only to:
1. guarantee idf free access anytime, anyplace 24/7.
2. protect areas illegally held by occupiers (usa, isrl, trky).
3. do occasional token terrorist weeding when requested.
4. prove a loyal stooge to the zio-west axis.
this way r.f. can make u.n. speeches and (maybe..) keep crimea (and p’s holiday home!).
that’s probably a bit unfair. it’s easy to criticise putin, but if it wasn’t for russian support syria would have gone under by now with the us/ zio isis proxies taking over the country and serving their interests, as a first step to attacking iran. there was a lot of unease in russia about the intervention in syria, and to some extent putin was going out on a limb there. he has to prioritise the interests of russia and the russian people. he cannot ……
go charging round the world like a white knight to confront the us/ zios. there are limits on what he can do. russia is already at war with the us and all its western vassals (30-40 countries?) over ukraine. they were confident they could destroy russia economically, and this was only prevented by putin’s astute management and leadership. is putin perfect, some kind of superman? no. but he is a cautious crisis manager. few others would have done so well. you have to see things in the round.
r.f’s intervention was a stage in preventing an axis of resistance between iran, hezb, houthis, hamas etc. against (us-funded 4×4 fakes) ‘isis’, which could have spread against all m.e. colonial occupiers.
post 2006 new unions were rising independent of the west and the zios were worried. the west-sponsored arab spring checked the rise, as did the libya debacle in 2011.
not a day would go by without the chews bombing one of their neighbours, kind of surprising that the chews haven’t been flattened yet (maybe as surprising as flatten the curve rubbish)…but anyway, one of these days they will reap what they’ve sown…this would have happened long time ago without the help from their little lap dog from across the ocean
get them s400/500 systems on the syrian border and close that airspace, seems like syria gets hit regularly.
since the war in ukraine started russia can hardly supply its forces in syria and has to move through the only non pro isreali corridor between russia and syria. russia -> caspian sea -> iran -> iraq -> syria
the moment the russians do something there they will run out of missiles fast and their base will be destroyed and russians killed by the “axis of eretz israel supporters” its just a numbers game.
this all started after turkish intrusion to syria. syrians should start shoot turks. turks are goat fuckers, doing that business, stupid beyond words. so they are slow to responde.
yep definitely time to tell the criminal in occupied palestine that if he doesn’t stop his sttacks on syria, he can expect to be visited by a number of kinzahls fired off from the caspian sea. not something the scumbag in tel aviv can do about it. and if not kinzahls there sure as a clucking bell that putin can find something similar in the arsenal. putin needs to do something to maintain respect around the globe!
definitely true. i’m marking your words
what kind of principle of international right is used by israhell to strike a sovereign state?
then also russia could target the deliveries of weapons to ukraine.
putin is advised.