Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
An Israeli strike targeted the southern Syrian city of al-Qunitra on October 9, killing or wounding at least three security personnel.
The strike hit the eastern entrance of the city, which is located less than two kilometers away from the separation line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency. Citing a source in the al-Quneitra Police Command, the state-run agency said that a member of the country’s internal security forces was killed in the strike.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, said that two other security personnel were also wounded.
Prior to the strike, Hebrew media reported that an Israeli military drone crashed near the town of Beit Jinn in the Syrian governorate of Rif Dimashq which borders al-Qunitra.
The strike also came less than 24 hours after an Israeli strike hit a multi-story residential and commercial building in the Mezzah district of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing at least seven people, mostly women and children. The target of the strike was reported members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Israel escalated its attacks on Syria significantly 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, Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
In recent days, Israeli drones and tanks shelled al-Qunitra and Rif Dimashq multiple times. A series of strikes also hit radar and air defense sites in the nearby governorates of Daraa and al-Suwayda. This led to speculations that Israel may be planning a surprise invasion into southern Syria to further pressure Hezbollah and even Iran.
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