Syria: Dozens killed and wounded by Israel’s Air Strikes in Palmyra · Global Voices

The Syrian Ministry of Defence announced today (20.11.2024) that at least 36 people were killed by air raids that launched it aimed at Palmyra, Homs Province in central . At the same time the Syrian Human Rights Watch reports that 11 pro-Iran militants lost their lives from Israel’s air strikes in Syria, in its latest account. “The Israeli enemy carried out an air attack targeting buildings in the city of Palmyra, in the Syrian desert, killing 36 people, injuring more than 50 and causing significant material damage to buildings and the surrounding area,” the source told the official Syrian news agency SANA. The airstrikes on Palmyra region (Homs Province) were quite significant. The airstrikes are said to have targeted the industrial areas with a certified airstrike on awarehouse used by the IRGC. Reports also claim that a restaurant was targeted in which a meeting of IRGC was… — ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) Among the dead fighters, seven are Syrian citizenship, according to the Observatory. At the same time he spoke of dozens of wounded, including at least seven civilians, from “Israeli aerial bombings targeting three separate areas in the city of Palmyra” , including a weapons depot near an industrial zone. “ The explosions heard in the city of Palmyra were due to an Israeli attack on residential buildings and the city’s industrial zone, ” broadcast the Syrian news agency SANA, while Syrian state television reported “injury.” Israel airstrikes targeted military sites hosting Assad’s forces, Iranian and Iraqi militias, and Hezbollah in the city of Palmyra, east of Homs, Syria. According to local sources: 36 people were killed and more than 50 were injured as a result of the Israeli air strikes. Good… — Fared Al Mahlool ف اريل ال ممالالاان (@FARED_ALHOR) In recent weeks, Israel, in an open war in Lebanon against pro-Iran Hezbollah, has intensified bombings on Syrian territory. The Lebanese movement supports the Damascus regime. Palmyra in the Syrian desert, with a thousand-year-old Greco-Roman temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was looted by the jihadists of the Islamic State in 2015 , at the height of the Syrian Civil War, in one of the biggest disasters for Syrian and global cultural heritage.