Syria has accused Israel of finishing up an airstrike on the important thing port of Latakia within the early hours right this moment, focusing on transport containers and inflicting a fireplace within the storage space. There have been no reported casualties.
A Syrian navy supply instructed SANA that at roughly 1.23 am Israeli warplanes launched a number of missiles from the path of the Mediterranean in opposition to the business port. “The firefighting groups have been capable of put out the blaze that erupted on the port after the Israeli assault,” defined the governor of Latakia, Ismail Hilal.
Whereas Israel has incessantly focused what it describes as Iranian interests in Syria, together with positions the place Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters have been deployed, the assault on Latakia is seen as “extremely irregular” by the Instances of Israel. The newspaper speculated that the targets have been chosen to disrupt Iranian provide traces to Hezbollah forces.
Latakia is Syria’s primary business port, by which meals and different necessary provides circulation into the nation. Israel has been reluctant to assault the realm as it’s near Russia’s Hmeimim Air Base. The final time that Israel was reported as finishing up strikes within the metropolis was in 2018, when a Russian navy aircraft was shot down accidentally by Syrian anti-aircraft defence techniques. This led to Moscow blaming Israel’s “irresponsible actions” for the incident, wherein all 15 on board the Russian plane have been killed.
