At least 3 killed in Israeli attack on allied militias in Damascus

At least three people died at dawn this Thursday in the last air attack perpetrated by Israeli aviation against positions of the militias allied to the Syrian Government in the vicinity of Damascus, reported the Syrian Observatory of Human rights.

The UK-based NGO with a wide network of collaborators on the ground said in a statement that Israeli missiles destroyed a weapons warehouse that possibly belonged to the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, a military ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. .

“The attack also caused the death of three people whose nationality is still unknown so far, it is not known whether they are Lebanese or of foreign nationalities affiliated with militias loyal to Iran,” the Observatory explained, adding that the number deaths could increase due to the fact that there were also several injured, some of them in serious condition.

For its part, the official Syrian agency SANA had placed the balance of victims in the attack on four wounded soldiers and had assured that “most” of the projectiles, launched from Lebanese territory, were intercepted by the anti-aircraft defenses of the Arab country.

The latest attack of this type occurred on March 16, two months after the deadliest Israeli action of all time in Syrian territory caused 57 fatalities in the ranks of the Syrian Army and the pro-Iranian militias that support it in the eastern province of Deir al Zur.

Israel often attacks targets of forces loyal to Assad, and Lebanese or Iranian Shiite militias allied to him, sometimes causing casualties among its ranks, although generally the Jewish state does not speak publicly about them.

The Israeli authorities consider that the presence in Syria of forces from Iran or its arch-enemy, as well as militants from its Lebanese rival, Hezbollah, represent a threat to their security.