DAMASCUS (AFP) – The Syrian Defence Ministry said Israel carried out several air strikes in the central region on Friday, wounding seven civilians.
“At approximately 7.35pm, the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of northern Lebanon, targeting a number of sites in the central region,” the ministry said.
The attack “wounded seven civilians”, it added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air strikes targeted facilities of the Syrian army and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
“Israeli strikes hit makeshift petrol stations affiliated to Hezbollah in the Homs countryside, and struck weapons depots belonging to the group as well as two Syrian army sites in the Hama countryside,” the Britain-based war monitor’s director, Rami Abdel Rahman, said.
Since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in the country, mainly targeting the army and its allies.
