BEIRUT (AFP) – Syrian state media said an Israeli drone strike yesterday killed two people in Quneitra province, in the Syria-controlled Golan Heights, days after major raids elsewhere in the country.
“Two citizens were martyred due to an Israeli drone attack that targeted a civilian vehicle with a missile” on the Damascus-Quneitra road, the official news agency SANA reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said “an Israeli air strike targeted a vehicle” on the same road and reported two dead, one of them “military”.
A security source told AFP that “two charred bodies were removed” from the targeted vehicle.
The Israeli army has yet to comment on the strike.
Israel seized much of the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and later annexed it in a move largely unrecognised by the international community.
Yesterday’s strike came days after raids blamed on Israel killed 18 people in the central province of Hama, according to Syrian authorities. The Observatory said those strikes killed 27 people, including six civilians, and targeted a “scientific research area” and other sites in the province’s Masyaf area.
Israel declined to comment on those reported strikes. Hezbollah has repeatedly targeted military positions in the Israeli-held Golan in recent months.
