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s on Syria despite international condemnations, targeting the western coastal city of Latakia where injuries are currently unknown, state media reported.
"Israeli occupation planes launched several airstrikes in the vicinity of the port and the city of Latakia a short while ago," Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said, citing its correspondent.
A deadly Israeli airstrike on the southern province of Daraa on Tuesday drew international condemnation from regional and global powers such as Germany, Jordan, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, and Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start.... The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said it was targeting "several hard boyz who opened fire toward them" while Damascus said six were killed.
SANA added that authorities are "working to ensure that there are no injuries in the targeted place."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, reported that Israel "fired at least six missiles" on ammunition depots in Latakia.
"The raid caused extensive material damage and destroyed the ammunition depot. The explosions continued for tens of minutes, and no reports of casualties have been reported so far," the Observatory said.