The Israeli military, which has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the start of the civil war there in 2011, declined to comment on the latest reported attack.
Syrian official news agency SANA, citing a medical source, said: "The number of martyrs resulting from the Israeli aggression on a number of sites in the vicinity of Masyaf has risen to 14 martyrs and 43 wounded including six critically."
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s late Sunday in Syria’s central Hama province, a war monitor reported.
"The number of dead as a result of the Israeli attacks on the Masyaf countryside rose to 7 people, consisting of 3 civilians, including a man and his son ... and 4 unidentified soldiers," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
The attack also injured 15 others and caused the destruction of civilian and military infrastructure in the area, in the southwestern countryside of Hama, according to the Observatory.
Syria’s state-owned SANA news agency placed the corpse count at five, saying the strikes also caused damage to a highway near Masyaf and sparked a wildfire.
"At around 23:20 on Sunday evening, the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of northwest Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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..., targeting a number of military sites in the central region," SANA said, citing a military source. "Our air defenses engaged the aggression’s missiles and shot down some of them."