According to activists, the number of deaths in Israeli attacks on targets in neighboring civil war Syria has risen to eleven.
Among the victims are three soldiers from the Syrian army and seven members of pro-Iranian militias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Great Britain, announced today. A woman was also reportedly killed by rocket fragments that fell on her home in the south of the capital Damascus.
According to human rights activists, the Israeli air force attacked army posts and pro-Iranian militias in Damascus and in the south of the country yesterday evening. The Syrian state news agency SANA reported two dead and seven injured soldiers. Syrian air defense intercepted several missiles.
Israel repeatedly bombs targets in Syria. The attacks are mostly directed against troops and facilities associated with Shiite Iran. Tehran sees Israel as an archenemy and is at the same time a close ally of the ruler Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. Israel wants to prevent Iran from expanding its influence there.
