Cairo: An Israeli airstrike killed a soldier in southern Syria on Thursday, Syrian state media reported, in an attack on a border area where Israel has expressed concern. deployment Iran-backed forces.
An Israeli military spokesman declined to comment on the report.
Israel has launched frequent attacks against what it describes as Iranian targets in Syria, where Tehran-backed forces, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, have deployed over the past decade to support President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian war.
Syrian State News Agency, citing a military source sana Said “The enemy of Israel launched an air attack”, fired missiles from Golan Heights, territory annexed by Israel from Syria in 1967.
Sanaa said Syrian air defenses shot down most of the rockets. led to the attack “the Martyrdom One soldier and some material damage”, it added.
The then US President in 2019 Donald Trump It broke with other world powers by recognizing Israel as sovereign on the Golan Heights, which it added in 1981 in a move not recognized internationally.
An Israeli military spokesman declined to comment on the report.
Israel has launched frequent attacks against what it describes as Iranian targets in Syria, where Tehran-backed forces, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, have deployed over the past decade to support President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian war.
Syrian State News Agency, citing a military source sana Said “The enemy of Israel launched an air attack”, fired missiles from Golan Heights, territory annexed by Israel from Syria in 1967.
Sanaa said Syrian air defenses shot down most of the rockets. led to the attack “the Martyrdom One soldier and some material damage”, it added.
The then US President in 2019 Donald Trump It broke with other world powers by recognizing Israel as sovereign on the Golan Heights, which it added in 1981 in a move not recognized internationally.
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