The official Syrian news agency, SANA, reported on October 17 that Israel A raid was carried out at the entrance to the city LatakiaThe Syrian Observatory said it targeted a weapons depot.
The Russian Hmeimim air base is located close to Latakia.
The Russian President’s envoy to the Middle East, Alexander Lavrentiev, said on Wednesday to the Russian “RIA Novosti” news agency: “Israel carried out an air strike very close to… Hmeimim base“.
He added, “Our soldiers informed Israeli officials that such operations would endanger the lives of the Russian soldiers present there, and this is unacceptable.”
He continued: “Therefore, we hope that this event that occurred in October will not be repeated,” noting that the Russian base “is not used for supplies.” Hezbollah“.
On Wednesday, Syrian media reported that Israel attacked the Qusayr area in the southern Homs countryside in central Syria, causing a number of Syrian army personnel to be wounded.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Israeli air strikes targeted 8 sites in the Qusayr countryside.
He added that 15 soldiers from the 4th B DivisionSyrian army They were injured, as well as a number of others of different nationalities in the attack that occurred Al Quseir area In the countryside of Homs, near the Syrian-Lebanese border.
He explained that Israeli aircraft renewed their raids and targeted Tal Mando Bridge, Al-Arjoun Bridge, and Beit Khader Bridge on the border between Syria and Lebanon, bringing the number of targeted sites in Al-Qusayr and its countryside to 8.
Israeli warplanes targeted the Dab’a checkpoint and the 4th Division’s Al-Mashtal checkpoint near the city of Qusayr on the Rabla road, the 4th Division’s security checkpoint on a bridge in the village of Al-Jubaniyah, and the Al-Daf Bridge and Al-Adar Bridge in the Qusayr countryside near the Syrian-Lebanese border.
Since the outbreak of war in Syria In 2011, Shen Israeli army Hundreds of strikes in this country mainly targeted sites of the Syrian army and Iranian-backed fighters, including sites of the Lebanese Hezbollah, and Israel has intensified its strikes since the outbreak of the war between it and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
