Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A series of Israeli strikes hit the southeastern entrance of the Syrian coastal city of Lattakia early on October 17, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
The strikes were launched from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, a military official said in a statement to the state-run news agency, adding that the attack wounded two civilians and caused damage to private properties close to the targeted area.
Videos posted to social media showed a series of large blasts and a fire at the targeted area, which is known as el-Yahudiyah.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group of unclear funding, said the Israeli strikes “targeted a weapons depot.”
Israel has escalated its attacks on Syria since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
After expanding operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon last month, the Israeli military announced that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Recent Israeli strikes on Syria claimed the lives of dozens of civilians. Still, the war-torn country has so far refrained from responding, likely to avoid a dangerous confrontation.
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