Israel has struck western Syria, the Israeli military and Syrian state media have reported, in the first such aerial attack on the country in almost a month, the day after the United States envoy to Damascus said conflict between the neighbouring countries is “solvable”.
Syrian state media reported late Friday that one person was killed and three others injured by an Israeli air strike on the coastal city of Latakia.
The Israeli strike follows Syria acknowledging indirect talks with Israel earlier this month to calm tensions.
The Israeli military claimed responsibility for the strike, saying it had “struck weapon storage facilities containing coastal missiles that posed a threat to international and Israeli maritime freedom of navigation, in the Latakia area of Syria”.
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Syria and Israel have technically been at war since 1948. Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and has carried out hundreds of strikes and several incursions since the overthrow of longtime Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in December.
ReplyDeleteIsrael says its strikes aim to stop advanced weapons reaching Syria’s new authorities, whom it considers extremists.