“The IDF (navy) is at the moment placing navy targets in southern Syria, together with command centres and navy websites containing weapons and navy autos belonging to the previous Syrian regime,” a military assertion mentioned.
“The presence of navy belongings in southern Syria poses a risk to the State of Israel,” it mentioned, including the navy “won’t enable the presence of navy threats in southern Syria and can function towards it.”
Syrian state information company SANA reported that “two civilians died and 19 others have been injured in Israeli airstrikes on the outskirts of Daraa metropolis”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor mentioned Israel focused a navy website as soon as belonging to ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s military however now utilized by the forces of Syria’s new authorities.
Because the ousting of president Bashar al-Assad in December, Israel has carried out a whole lot of air strikes in Syria and deployed troops to a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the strategic Golan Heights.
Even earlier than Assad’s fall, throughout the Syrian civil battle that broke out in 2011, Israel carried out a whole lot of strikes within the nation, primarily on authorities forces and Iranian-linked targets.