“An aerial raid by Israeli occupation aircraft targeted the vicinity of the scientific research center in the Barzeh residential neighborhood in Damascus,” Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported, citing its correspondent.
Citing another correspondent, it also said that Israeli strikes targeted the vicinity of Syria’s central Hama city.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, also reported the strikes on both cities, saying that the bombardment in Hama “targeted aircraft and runways at Hama military airport, with reports of human casualties.”
In late March, a deadly Israeli airstrike on the southern Daraa province drew international condemnation from regional and global powers. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said it was targeting “several terrorists who opened fire toward them” while Damascus said six were killed.
Since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad in early December, Israel has scrambled to destroy Damascus’s military stockpiles. It also sent troops across the border into a buffer zone east of the annexed Golan Heights, justifying the move as a precaution amid the political instability in Syria.
Throughout the Syrian civil war, Israel carried out hundreds of strikes, often justifying them as targeting pro-Iran armed groups, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which supported Assad at the time.
