At least 23 pro-Iranian fighters and three Syrian civilians were killed and around twenty other people injured in Syria on Saturday December 30 in a series of air raids. According to the NGO the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strikes could be attributed to Israel.
2 mins
The deadliest raids took place at dawn on Saturday in the Boukamal region, in the east. This is the main border crossing point between Syria and Iraq and which is under the control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and their allies, reports our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifeh.
“ Twenty-three fighters affiliated with Iran “, including five Syrians, four members of Lebanese Hezbollah, six Iraqis and eight Iranians were killed in at least nine airstrikes targeting military positions near the border with Iraq, announced the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Man (OSDH). She added that around 20 people were injured.
The OSDH said nine airstrikes targeted military positions, including a shipment of weapons from Iraq and an ammunition warehouse in and around the town of Boukamal. Six Iraqis and four Syrians are among the victims of these raids, according to the OSDH.
The strikes are “ probably Israeli “, declared to AFP the director of the OSDH Rami Abdel Rahmane, who had initially said that they could have been carried out by the United States. An American military official, however, affirmed that the country had “not carried out no defensive strikes during the night » from Friday to Saturday.
Hezbollah, for its part, announced the death of four of its fighters on Saturday, without specifying either the circumstances or the location of their deaths.
On Saturday afternoon, Israeli aircraft bombed a number of targets south of Aleppo from the Mediterranean, west of Latakia, killing three civilians, according to the Syrian Defense Ministry. The OSDH specifies that the raids targeted a region sheltering positions and weapons warehouses of pro-Iranian groups south of the airport military al-Neirab, near Aleppo.
THE Israeli strikes against Iranian Revolutionary Guards and groups close to Tehran in Syria have become almost daily since the start of the Gaza war on October 7.