Illustrative image (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Late on November 14, another wave of Israeli strikes hit bridges leading to the Lebanese border in the southwestern countryside of Syria’s Homs.
Syrian state TV said that al-Muh and al-Daf bridges close to the town of al-Qusayr were targeted. No casualties were reported after the strikes. Al-Qusayr, which is located some eight kilometers away from the border with Lebanon, is known to be a stronghold of Hezbollah.
Just a few hours before the strikes on Homs a series of Israeli strikes targeted residential buildings in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the nearby city of Qudssaya, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 16 others.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed responsibility for the strikes on Damascus. It alleged that the targeted buildings belonged to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Separately, IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari warned that Israel was about to escalate its attacks on Syria to prevent the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah.
“We have identified that there are rockets and other weapons that Hezbollah is launching at Israel, that were manufactured in Syria, and were transferred to Hezbollah from Syria,” he said.
The spokesman added that the IDF will strike “all attempts to transfer weapons from Syria to Hezbollah and strike any infrastructure we identify in Syria that is being used to manufacture weapons for Hezbollah.”
Israel has escalated its attacks on Syria since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
After expanding operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon in September, the IDF said that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Israeli strikes are estimated to have killed over 400 people in Syria over the past year. While the war-torn country has maintained support for Hezbollah and other factions of the Axis of Resistance, it has refrained from responding directly in an attempt to avoid a dangerous confrontation with Israel.
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