Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A wave of Israeli strikes hit the Syrian governorates of Homs and Hamas early on October 10, targeting a car plant, an aid convoy and a military site.
In a statement to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, a Syrian military official said that the strikes were launched from the direction of northern Lebanon and targeted a car plant in the Hassia industrial city in the southern countryside of Homs as well as a military site in Hama. The official noted that the strikes resulted in material losses only.
The Syrian state TV reported later that the strikes also hit an aid convoy which was parked near the car plant -owned by an Iranian company- and revealed that the military site targeted in Hamas is located close to the town of Maarin in the southern countryside of the governorate.
It’s worth noting that Israeli drones struck three vehicles carrying aids for refugees from Lebanon near the same car plant on October 6.
Israel escalated its attacks on Syria significantly 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.
The IDF announced after escalating operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon last month that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.
A day earlier, an Israeli drone strike hit the southern Syrian city of al-Qunitra, killing a member of the country’s internal security forces and wounding two others. Later, the IDF alleged that the slain officer, Adham Jahout, was a member of Hezbollah.
Jahout “passed information from Syrian regime officials to the Hezbollah organization,” as well as other information it gathered along the border to target the Golan Heights, the military said in a statement.
The statement marked a rare IDF confirmation of Israeli operations in Syria, as it generally avoids publicly claiming its activity there.
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