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Al Ekhbariya: Syrian air defenses repel Israeli missile attack in Homs province; 5 Syrian soldiers maimed
2023-04-02
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] An air defense system went off in the Syrian province of Homs after several rockets were fired by Israel, local media reported April 2.

According to the Al Ekhbariya TV channel, anti-aircraft gunners repel "Israeli missile aggression against the central region and shoot down some of them."

On the air, Sham FM radio station said that four Syrian soldiers were injured as a result of a strike on a military base in the western province of Homs.

As REGNUM reported earlier, on the night of March 30, Israel attacked a number of positions in the vicinity of the Syrian city of Damascus with the help of several missiles. Two soldiers were wounded. There was also property damage.
The Times of Israel confirms, with added information:
The state news agency SANA reported that Syria’s air defenses intercepted some of the missiles, although the "aggression" managed to injure five soldiers and caused "material losses." Syria regularly claims to successfully intercept IDF strikes, but military analysts doubt these assertions.

A Syrian military source told SANA that "at about 00:35 in the morning, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction north-east of Beirut, targeting some points in the city of Homs and its countryside."

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said explosions were heard at a few sites including the Syrian military airport at al-Dabaa near Homs, and a fire broke out at a scientific research facility in another area. The organization said the strikes targeted several Syrian military positions and Iranian-backed militia.

Western intelligence sources told Rooters the strikes hit a series of air bases in central Syria where Iranian personnel are based.

The two sources said the strikes targeted the Tiyas air base, also known as T-4, located near the ancient city of Palmyra in the Homs Governorate, and the al-Dabaa airport near the city of al-Qusayr also in the Homs Governorate, near the Lebanese border. It is an area known for the presence of members of Lebanese Hezbollah, a major terror organization backed by Iran, and other pro-Iranian groups and militias.

T-4 is believed to be one of two major airports — the other being Damascus International Airport — where Iranian cargo airlines carrying large weapons set for Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
often land. The weaponry is then believed to be stored in warehouses in the area before being trucked to Lebanon.

Saturday’s Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s came a day after Syrian media said Israeli airstrikes hit in the capital Damascus for the second time this week. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those strikes targeted an arms depots for government forces and Iran-backed groups just south of Damascus.

On the previous night, SANA said that the IAF targeted sites in Damascus, wounding two soldiers and causing material damage. The conditions of the two soldiers were not immediately clear. In recent years, numerous Syrian soldiers serving in air defense units have been killed in Israeli airstrikes.
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Posted by:badanov

#1  Seen on the Times of Israel’s liveblog just now:

Satellite images show damage caused by alleged overnight Israeli airstrike in Syria

Satellite images published by an Israeli intelligence and imagery firm show damage purportedly caused to the Syrian military airport at al-Dabaa near Homs in an alleged Israeli airstrike overnight.

According to ImageSat International (ISI), the airstrike late last night likely targeted Iranian-backed Hezbollah drone activity, destroying an aircraft shed, a UAV communication station and a communication vehicle.

Western intelligence sources told Reuters the strikes hit a series of air bases in central Syria where Iranian personnel are based.


Satellite image with circles and arrows can be seen at the link.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-04-02 14:57  

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