Israeli missile strike kills 5 fighters on Syria: monitor
Five Iran-backed fighters were killed within an Israeli missile strike south of the Syrian capital, a Britain-based war monitor said about Tuesday.
The missile attack on Monday night hit weapons depots and military positions belonging to Syrian regime forces and Iran-backed militia fighters south of Damascus, in line with the Syrian Observatory for Man Rights.
The attack wounded at least seven Syrian troops, according to the official SANA news agency, which said the missiles were launched by warplanes over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The pro-regime Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah said among its fighters was among the dead.
The five killed were all non-Syrian paramilitary fighters, based on the Observatory.
It added that 11 combatants were wounded altogether - four non-Syrian fighters and seven Syrian troops, of which two were in critical state.
A good military spokesman in Israel told AFP that its army “will not comment on foreign reports”.
Israel has launched hundreds of strikes in Syria since the start of the country’s civil war found in 2011.
It has targeted government troops, allied Iranian forces and fighters from Hezbollah, saying its goal is to get rid of Tehran’s military occurrence in Syria.
It rarely confirms information on its businesses in Syria but says Iran’s presence to get the regime is a good threat and that Israel will keep up strikes.
The nine-year-old conflict in Syria has killed a lot more than 380,000 persons and displaced more than half of the country’s pre-war population.
