Global Courant 2023-04-29 06:50:35
A gas station was hit by missiles with storage tanks and trucks destroyed by fire, reports said.
Three people have been injured, fires and explosions have been reported after an Israeli airstrike on a site near the Syrian city of Homs, state media reported, with a control group saying an ammunition depot was hit.
Syrian state news agency SANA, citing military officials, said three civilians were injured in the attack in the early hours of Saturday and a civilian gas station caught fire. A number of fuel tankers and trucks were also burned.
“Around 00:50 (21:50 GMT)… the Israeli enemy carried out an airstrike with a number of missiles, from the direction of northern Lebanon, targeting several positions near the city of Homs,” SANA reported.
SANA said Syrian air defenses shot down some of the Israeli missiles in the skies over Homs.
Pro-government Sham FM radio said fires broke out south of Homs city as a result of the strikes and “successive explosions” were heard from the area.
The UK-based opposition war observer Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israeli missiles destroyed an ammunition depot belonging to the Lebanese group Hezbollah at a military airfield in rural Homs.
The observatory said it was the second time Israel had attacked the site in a month.
There was no immediate statement from the Israeli authorities about the attack. During more than 10 years of civil war in Syria, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian territory, but does not comment on such attacks.
Israel claims it is targeting Iranian-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters on Syrian soil.
State media reported that Israeli airstrikes hit several locations in Homs on April 2, injuring five soldiers.
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