As a result of an Israeli airstrike on the western coast of Syria yesterday morning, two civilians were injured, the Syrian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The statement, citing a military source, said that several poultry farms were hit in the vicinity of the town of Hamidiya, south of Tartus.
For his part, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a non-governmental organization with a wide network of sources in Syria, said the bombing had hit “former livestock sheds” in an area “used by the Lebanese Hezbollah to transport weapons.”
The observatory said that “the voices of the regime’s air defenses were not heard, since the guidance was sudden.”
Since the start of the war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against the Syrian army, Iranian forces and the Lebanese Hezbollah, allies of the Syrian regime.
The conflict in Syria, which began with the suppression of democratic demonstrations, has claimed the lives of about 500,000 people, destroyed the country’s infrastructure and forced millions of people to flee their homes.
