Israel conducted a rare airstrike on a military target inside Syria, foreign officials and Syrian state TV said Wednesday, amid fears President Bashar Assad’s regime could provide weapons, including chemical arms, to the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
According to a Syrian military statement cited by the official SANA news agency, the IAF fighter jets came from the north, “flying at a low altitude and below radars,” and bombed a “scientific research center” in the Jamraya area just northwest of Damascus.
The statement added that Israel, along with Turkey and Qatar, were in league with local rebels, or as they call them “terrorists,” aiding their effort to topple the Assad regime.
The statement concluded by affirming that “such criminal acts will not weaken Syria and its role and will not dissuade Syrians from continuing to support resistance movements and just Arab causes, primarily the Palestinian cause.”
Two workers at the facility were killed and five were injured in the strike, the Syrian Army said, adding that considerable material damage was caused to the site, which was responsible for “raising the level of resistance and self-defense” of Syria’s military.
The statement denied earlier reports that the strike was aimed at a convoy carrying weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon, and did not specify as to the purpose of the installation that was hit.
At 1:30 a.m., the Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCCSy)tweeted that emergency response vehicles were en route to Dumar, a neighborhood adjacent to Jamraya, that it said is home to a scientific facility. An hour and a half later, LCCSy reported that forces belonging to the elite Syrian Army 105th Brigade were deployed in Dumar to cordon off the area following an attack on the facility.
The Times of Israel
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