This was reported this Wednesday (02.23.2022) by the official Syrian news agency SANA. “At around 00:30 local time (22:30 GMT on Tuesday) on February 23, 2022, the Israeli enemy carried out an act of aggression with a series of surface-to-surface missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan ,” a statement said. unidentified military source, according to SANA.
He also indicated that the attacked positions are in the vicinity of the province of Quneitra, in southern Syria, which caused “material damage”, without information of victims, the source said.
SANA recalled that on February 16, the Israeli State launched another action with ground-to-ground missiles from the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War of June 1967, against some areas of the city of Zakyia , south of Damascus, also causing material damage.
So far, Israel has not reacted to this information.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an NGO whose headquarters are in the United Kingdom, but which has a wide network of collaborators on the ground, this is the fifth attack launched by Israel against Syria so far this year .
He said the target was the Finance building in the city of Al Baath and other sites in the area around the village of Ruwaihina, where militias from the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and others backed by Iran are active.
According to the NGO, the target was a meeting of military and security officials whose identities are unknown at this time.
These types of attacks launched by the Jewish state are common, especially against areas where Lebanese and Iranian Shiite militias allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are deployed, whose presence on the other side of its border is considered by Israel as a threat to your safety.