Early on Saturday, Israeli airstrikes struck Syria’s central and coastal regions, killing four soldiers and injuring one, according to the Syrian military.
Unidentified Syrian military officials were quoted by state media as reporting that Israeli airplanes over the Mediterranean fired missiles against military installations in central and coastal Syria.
Load explosions were heard in the central Syrian regions of Hama and Homs as well as the coastal province of Latakia, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor. There were no more details provided.
Israel has attacked government-controlled areas of Syria on hundreds of occasions in recent years, although it rarely admits or talks about these actions.
However, Israel has acknowledged that it strikes the bases of militant organizations with ties to Iran, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has dispatched thousands of fighters to aid Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s forces.
On November 13, two soldiers were killed and three were injured when Israel attacked the Shayrat air base in central Syria.