ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least four people have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli shelling on Syria’s southwestern Daraa province on Tuesday, according to local reports.
The province’s official channel on Telegram reported that four people were killed and several others injured, including a woman, in an "Israeli shelling” that occurred during “an incursion" by Israeli forces into the town of Koya, west of Daraa.
The Israeli bombardment “was followed by tank shelling, which instigated panic among locals. A reconnaissance aircraft was also flying over the area," the report added.
Later in the day, the channel reported "a large wave of displacement from Koya, west of Daraa, amid the fear from the new incursion of the Israeli occupation army into the town."
Other Syrian media reports raised the number of fatalities to six.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday confirmed that they had launched airstrikes on two military bases in Syria’s central Homs province, to destroy "military capabilities" in the area.
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Israel has scrambled to destroy Syria’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 against political instability in Syria.
Throughout the Syrian civil war, Israel carried out hundreds of strikes, often claiming to target pro-Iran armed groups, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, that supported Assad at the time.
