At least 15 people were killed and 16 were hurt in Israel’s attacks on a suburb of Damascus ‘ eastern district on Thursday, according to Syria’s state news agency, according to the state news agency.
The attacks on the Mazzeh village in Damascus and the neighborhood of Qudsaya, north of the money, struck two houses, the SANA news agency said. A missile struck the floor, according to an Associated Press journalist who was present at the picture in Mazzeh.
The Israeli army claimed that it had attacked the Islamic Jihad militant group’s command centers and infrastructure in Syria and had “inflicted major harm to the criminal organization’s command center and its employees.”
Prior to Ali Larijani, an assistant to Iran’s high chief Ali Khamenei, meeting with Palestinian faction representatives at the Iranian Embassy in Mazzeh, the strikes in Damascus and the nearby suburb were scheduled to take place.
According to the Jewish government, Islamic Jihad and Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, were involved in the deadly attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 that resulted in the deaths of 1,200 civilians and 250 others who were abducted into Gaza.
The defense” will continue to conduct operations against the terrorist organization known as Islamic Jihad” as needed.
Israel’s retribution to the Oct 7 assault and the ensuing Israel-Hamas conflict has spilled into the wider area, affecting Lebanon, Syria and leading to scares between Israel and Iran. The war has left little of Gaza in remains and has killed over 43, 000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to local health authorities who do not differentiate between citizens and soldiers.
According to a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Group, some members of the organization were killed in the attack in Mazzeh and one of their practices. Because he was n’t given the opportunity to speak to the media, the official made the statement on condition of anonymity.
According to Syria’s state news agency, air defenses were deployed north of Homs, which is a “hostile objective.” It gave no further information.
Tehran has been a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s state since a 2011 rebellion turned into a full-fledged civil war, and it has played a significant role in influencing his government’s outcome.
Syrian fighters supported by Iran have traveled to Syria to fight on Assad’s area, along with scores of military experts and dozens of others. Assad’s financial ally, Tehran, sent billions of dollars worth of credit lines and energy.
Israel has launched plenty of strikes in Syria, targeting Hezbollah users and authorities from Iranian-backed organizations.
In show of support for Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah launched a rocket into Israel on October 8, 2023. Since then, more than 3, 200 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 14, 200 wounded, the government’s Health Ministry reported. In Israel, 76 people have been killed, including 31 men.
At least nine people were killed and five others were hurt when an Israeli strike hit a tower in Baalbek town in eastern Lebanon on Thursday, according to Lebanon’s state media.
The hit on Baalbek came without warning. The objective was unclear, and the Israeli government did not respond right away.
According to the National News Agency, Israeli aircraft increased airstrikes on Thursday, aiming specifically at the Nabatieh state and the southern port city of Wheel area.
Over the past two weeks, there have been apparent increases in assaults on Beirut’s southern suburbs due to irregular airstrikes that have targeted the region. The Israeli military has issued evacuation orders for many locations and buildings in the suburbs.
Israeli forces reported carrying out attacks on Hezbollah priorities in the Dahiyeh region’s command centers and weapons storage services.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the dying burdens in Lebanon since the battle began on Oct 8, 2023 has reached 3, 365 while those wounded are 14, 344. Roughly 1.2 million people have been displaced.
Hezbollah claimed to have lost nearly 500 people before the conflict started on September 23, but the organization has since stopped making statements about its dead combatants.
Despite fierce fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah insurgents, UN peacekeeping key Jean-Pierre Lacroix stated during a visit to Lebanon that the UN is still committed to keeping its peacekeeping force, known as UNIFIL, stationed at all of its locations in southwestern Lebanon.
Despite Israeli demands for soldiers to retreat five kilometers ( three miles ) from the border, UNIFIL has continued to monitor the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah across the so-called Blue Line. 13 peacekeepers were hurt in the battle, according to UNFIL, and Israel has been accused of purposefully destroying study products.
Lacroix made a few visits to some of the wounded troops while they were there.
UNIFIL causes” continue to be deployed in all the posts, and we think it is very important to keep that existence everywhere”, LaCroix said. ” Had we vacated some of the opportunities, then that would have undoubtedly jeopardized UNIFIL’s ability to continue now, but, more importantly, that would have substantially diminished UNIFIL’s ability to play a role tomorrow when the cessation of hostilities occurs, hopefully sooner than later,” he said.
According to Lacroix, there is still a “large discussion” regarding the UN Security Council resolution that ended Israel’s bloody yearlong civil war in 2006 but which neither side has completely implemented.
