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from the News Desk at The Cradle, January 2, 2025
The Israeli air force launched a violent attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus on 2 January, coming as Israel’s military continues to expand its occupation in the country, reaching a key dam in the southern Quneitra area.
Syrian media outlets reported that powerful explosions rocked the capital’s western countryside and that the target was the Tal al-Shahem military site overlooking Quneitra, Damascus, and its countryside.
“This site is considered one of the most important military centers of the Syrian army in the southern Damascus countryside. It contains military communications centers and radars, in addition to being an important site for missiles and anti-tank weapons,” Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Syria said.
The Israeli army stated on Thursday that elite troops recently raided and destroyed an underground Iranian missile facility west of Hama.
Israel has launched hundreds of heavy airstrikes targeting the majority of the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) military infrastructure across Syria since former president Bashar al-Assad’s government fell to extremist groups on 8 December.
Billions of dollars worth of weapons and ammunition have reportedly been taken out in the ongoing campaign.
The Israeli army also continues to expand its occupation across southern Syria.
Al Mayadeen reported on 2 January that Israeli troops have now reached the Al-Mantara Dam in the Quneitra countryside, the largest dam in southern Syria, adding that Israel has seized control of the six most strategic bodies of water in the south.
Israel’s recent expansion in Syria, which began immediately after the fall of the Assad government, has seen invading troops seize precious water sources such as the Al-Wahda Dam on the Yarmouk River Basin and others. Syrian and Israeli sources, as well as Carmel News citing an Iranian source, reported last month that Israel now controls 30 percent of Syria’s water supply and 40 percent of Jordan’s.
“The occupation’s control over the Al-Wahda Dam, which is located on the Jordanian border, is a threat to Jordan, because it was the biggest beneficiary of this dam,” Al Mayadeen’s correspondent said on Thursday.
