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from The News Desk at The Cradle, published October 3, 2024
Drones, warplanes, and warships took part in the early morning attack on western Syria, targeting a depot near Russia’s largest base in the country
Syrian and Russian air defenses confronted a suspected Israeli attack early on 3 October that reportedly hit warehouses near Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in the western Latakia governorate.
BREAKING:
🇮🇱🇷🇺 Israel strikes a Russian weapons depot in Syria.
Israel has finally poked the Bear.
The Israeli military is targeting sites in western Syria coastal cities
Large scale airstrikes in the Syrian city of Jableh, near Russia’s Hmeimim Airbase in western Syria on… pic.twitter.com/QELX8vjzcG
— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) October 3, 2024
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported, “Unknown drones … carried out airstrikes targeting an ammunition warehouse near Jablah city in Latakia countryside, near the largest Russian air base in Syria, which led to the warehouse’s destruction and huge explosions heard from far away.”
SOHR said it was not clear whether the drones were launched from inside Syrian territory or from the sea. According to local reports, drones, warplanes, and warships conducted the violent attack.
Warships and warplanes were present in the sea and skies, “believed to be Israeli,” SOHR added. “The air defenses of the [Syrian] regime and Russian forces confronting the missiles for more than 40 minutes.”
The warehouse is located near the Hmeimim airbase in western Syria. Hmeimim is the largest Russian base in the country.
An Israeli air raid hit the Mezzeh neighborhood in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on 2 October. Three civilians were killed and several injured, according to Syrian news agency SANA.
A day earlier, Israeli airstrikes targeted several areas in Damascus, killing several, including prominent Syrian journalist Safaa Ahmad.
The attacks on Syria come as Israel wages a massive and deadly campaign of airstrikes across Lebanon, including its capital. Israeli jets also continue to target civilians in the Gaza Strip daily.
“For the second time in two days, and in continuation of the criminal approach practiced by the Zionist entity against Syria and countries of the region, the Zionist entity today committed a new crime by attacking a residential building in an area crowded with civilians in the center of the capital Damascus, which claimed the lives of three civilians, injured many others, and caused material damage to private property,” the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on 2 October.
