Syria: At least 36 Military Dead in Israel Bombing in Aleppo · Global Voices

At least 36 Syrian military officers were killed in a plane bombing in the early hours of Friday, March 29, in Aleppo Province, in the north. The news was reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Israel’s bombing in northern Syria was mainly targeted by the Lebanese organization Hezbollah, which is fighting alongside the Syrian regime. According to the Syrian Human Rights Watch, which has its headquarters in Britain and has a wide network of sources in Syria, “at least 36 soldiers were killed and dozens (other) injured in Israeli raids”, which focused on an area near Aleppo airport. For its part, a source of the official Syrian news agency SANA in the military reported to “dead and wounded civilians and military” in the Israeli raid against military positions on the outskirts of the city of Aleppo. “The Israeli enemy launched an air attack on various sites in Athriya, southeast of Aleppo,” noted this source. The aim also became a factory of the Ministry of Defence in Safira, near Aleppo, which has now passed over the control of armed organisations adjacent to Tehran, according to the NGO. This is the most heavy account of casualties in the ranks of Syrian armed forces at least since the outbreak of the Gaza Strip, nearly six months ago, always according to the Syrian Human Rights Watch. When the French Agency contacted him, a representative of the Israeli army was limited to saying that it “does not comment” on press and NGO information. Fighters were killed on the outskirts of Damascus yesterday Thursday, two civilians were killed in an Israeli air bombardment on the outskirts of Damascus, according to the Syrian defence ministry. Initially, there was talk of two injured in Israel’s particular raid. The zone that entered the target zone, Sayeda Zainab, is considered a stronghold of armed groups adjacent to Iran operating in Syria. The Israeli army has launched hundreds of bombings, almost all from the air, in Syria after the extremely complex armed conflict broke out in that country in 2011. He is targeting organizations adjacent to Iran, above all Lebanese Hezbola, an ally of Hamas, as well as Iranian officers who are on Syrian territory as consultants. Operations of this nature multiplied after the war broke out in the Gaza Strip in October 2023 between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement. Earlier this month, the Israeli army announced that it hit “about 4,500” positions “Hezbola” in Lebanon and Syria, among them “over 1,200” from the air, after the war broke out in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s political and military leadership rarely publicly commentes on operations in Syria, but regularly announces that it has no intention of allowing Iran, an sworn enemy of the Jewish state, to set up a bridge or otherwise extend its ruins to its borders.