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2021-12-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Israeli airstrikes said to hit key Syrian port of Latakia, causing ‘massive’ damage
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[IsraelTimes] Videos posted to social media show huge explosions and fires raging across the port; strike would be second alleged Israeli attack on facility this month.
Syrian state media said Israeli warplanes fired missiles on the port of the coastal city of Latakia early Tuesday causing large explosions and fires, the second alleged strike in a month on the key facility.
SANA, Syria’s state media, quoted an unnamed military official as saying that several missiles struck the container area in the port, setting some of them on fire. He said the strikes caused "massive material damage."
The strikes came from the direction of the Mediterranean, he said.
So it could've been anybody, right?
The official said efforts were still underway to put out fires and assess the damage. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the attack, which activated Syrian air defenses, according to SANA.
Videos posted to social media showed huge explosions and fires raging across the port.
Syria’s state-run al-Ikhbariyah TV ran footage showing flames and smoke rising from the terminal. It reported damage to residential buildings, a hospital, shops and some tourist sites near the port.
An al-Ikhbariyah TV news hound in the area said Tuesday’s attack appeared to have been larger than the strike earlier this month and the earth-shattering kabooms could be heard in Tartus, another coastal city more than 80 kilometers (nearly 50 miles) away. The news hound said ambulances were rushed to the scene but it remained unclear if there were any casualties.
Until earlier this month, strikes on the port of Latakia were highly irregular. The port is a vital facility where much of Syria’s imports are brought into the war-torn country and through which Iran
 ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence...
reportedly brings in weapons to its militias in the country, including the Lebanese terrorist army Hezbollah.
Though Israel has regularly conducted raids against Iranian-linked targets in Syria, it rarely strikes close to Latakia, let alone inside the terminal, as the Russian military maintains a base of operations nearby. Due to its delicate relationship with Moscow, Israel typically refrains from carrying out attacks against targets if there are Russian troops nearby, though Israel believes that this well-known policy has led Iran to seek to protect its arms transfers by conducting them near Russian-controlled areas.
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