Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A series of Israeli strikes hit the town of al-Qusayr and its surroundings in the southwestern countryside of Syria’s Homs on October 31, according to Syrian state TV.
The violent strikes targeted several residential buildings within al-Qusayr, an adjacent industrial zone and the nearby al-Daf brigade. Videos posted to social networks showed multiple large blasts and columns of black smoke rising from the town.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, reported that three people were killed and at least five others were wounded in the strikes. However, it is important to note that the group has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of inflating casualty numbers, as well as inventing them wholesale.
Hezbollah established a strong presence in al-Qusayr, which is located less than ten kilometers away from the Lebanese border, after the outbreak of the war in Syria.
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, Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
After expanding operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon last month, the Israeli military announced that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.
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americans who support zionist atrocities may find themselves vaccinated to death so thier pensions can support zionist wars while their neighbors eat their pets
hitting areas without any air defensive systems using u.s equipment. really impressive!
syria does have the air defences on its territory, problem is these r.f. s300s etc are deliberately switched off when the idf comes calling, as israel has a free pass (issued by the krmln) to do as it pleases.
so why isn’t russia sending up it’s aerospace forces to intercept these fly over bombing runs by the iof?… why have an air force in tartus that never defends the “host”???…
so… s-300s are suffering from corrosion