Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A series of Israeli strikes targeted northern Syria early on November 9, according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency.
The strikes were launched from the southeast of the governorate of Aleppo, a military official told the news agency, adding that several military sites in the countryside of Aleppo and the neighboring governorate of Idlib were hit which wounded several troops and caused material damage.
Prior to the strike, the Horan Free League, a pro-opposition news blog, said that Israeli warplanes were flying over the southern governorate of Daraa.
Later, the Russian Sputnik news agency reported that the Israeli attack on Aleppo and Idlib was launched from the direction of the Syrian-Iraqi border.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, the main target of the Israeli strike was a large military-industrial complex of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center located near the town of al-Safirah in the southern countryside of Aleppo.
Other pro-opposition media sources reported that a military site near the town of Saraqib in the southern Idlib countryside was also hit.
Israel escalated its attacks on Syria after 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, Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
After expanding operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon in September, the Israeli military announced that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.
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