The death toll in Israeli air strikes on Syria is currently at 52, and it includes 38 government soldiers and 7 members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement.
Friday’s strikes fuelled concerns of a larger scale regional conflict, and they are targeted “a rocket depot belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah” near the Aleppo airport in northern Syria, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It was the latest deadly raid on Iran-backed forces in Syria, where Hezbollah has been backing the Bashar al-Assad’s government in its fight against oppositions since the 2011 Syria civil war started.
Israeli strikes on targets in Syria have gone a level higher since Israel’s war against the Hezbollah-affiliated Hamas group in the Gaza Strip broke out on October 7.
Israeli raids also regularly target Hezbollah in Lebanon in retaliation for cross-border fire.
Friday’s strikes killed 38 Syrian soldiers, seven Hezbollah members and seven Syrian pro-Iran fighters, and this is up from a total of 44 according to an earlier toll.
The number of Syrian soldiers killed was the highest in Israeli strikes since the war with Hamas broke out, said the war monitor, which relies on multiple sources in Syria.
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