Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Several waves of Israeli strikes hit southern Syria over the night of March 10 and 11, targeting bases and equipment of the former Syrian Arab Army.
At least nine strikes hit the 89th Artillery Regiment base, destroying observation platforms and tanks, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which added that another eight strikes targeted the 12th Brigade base. Both positions are located in the countryside of Daraa governorate.
The London-based monitoring group later reported that four more strikes hit the 90th Brigade base in the countryside of al-Qunitra, where a tank battalion and other heavy weapons were destroyed.
Later overnight, the strikes expanded to the governorate of Rif Dimashq with multiple military sites being targeted, including the 68th Regiment base.
Following the fall of the Assad regime last December, Israeli troops invaded the buffer zone adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights in the southern Syrian governorate of al-Qunitra. The IDF also launched hundreds of strikes destroying much of the country’s military capabilities.
The IDF has described its presence in southern Syria’s buffer zone as a temporary and defensive measure. Nevertheless, Defense Minister Israel Katz has said that troops will remain deployed to strategic nine army posts in the area “indefinitely.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last month that southern Syria must be completely demilitarized, warning that Israel would not accept the presence of the forces of Syria’s Islamist government near its territory.
The latest Israeli strikes on southern Syria came amid a bloody escalation on the country’s coast, where more than 1,000 civilians from the Alawite minority -which former President Bashar al-Assad belongs to- have been killed so far by government forces.
Israel slammed the massacres. However, it has so far ignored calls from some Alawites activists to intervene against government forces.
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thousands of civilians killed in syrian not the small numbers posted here
rip hassan nasrallah. martyred by scummy zionist filth and their bought and paid for us stooge whores. a great man who will inspire those who come after him. zionist rats and cockroaches can dance on a lion’s grave, but they will always be rats and cockroaches.
lets not forget qasem soleimani and 0range $tain boasting about his assassination when he was still in the white house!… wouldn’t want to be trumptard or america right now with ukraine on the ropes… looks like it’s time to break out my last cigars and cognac given how much i$rael is asking for that itch to be scratched. flip a coin. we knew the u.$. wanted it in the me because ukraine is now a bridge too far…
assad did nothing wrong. he was the lesser of all evils in syria. now greater israel is kaput.
assad won his election by over 90% thats why the called him a dictator .
the tell tale sign will be an indiscriminate hit on khmeimim with those syrian refugees. poutine?… ball in your court once that accident takes shape. oao
these zionists never killed a single hts terrorist, they only bombed hezbollah in lebanon and some empty bases in syria!
to israel everyone is a terrorist . this label must be repeated by hasbara guidelines
don’t worry guys! i am sure the hts will soon advance and free all of south syria and continue to free palestine as they kept saying before they to power! oh wait, they actually zionist erdogans dogs! only fighting unarmed civilians! old people and children! the dogs that was let loose on the civilians by the dog erdogan. it isn’t the first time that the turks massacred the alawites. they are dogs no matter what they dress or what the world call them. always dogs!!
rhat snake erdogan has got plenty of problems.
his economy is a shambles, the lira has gone down the toilet, terrorism spilling over into turkey. maybe the amerikunts will try to regime change him again. with absolute chaos on his southern border.
again sf censors strike my posts