At least 36 killed in Israeli attack on Syria’s Palmyra: State media
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Syrian Ministry of Defence statement says attack causes ‘significant material damage’, state media report.
At least 36 people have been killed and 50 wounded in an Israeli attack that hit residential buildings in the Syrian city of Palmyra, Syrian state media report.
The air attack was launched from the direction of al-Tanf in eastern Syria and caused “significant material damage”, Syria’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Wednesday that was quoted by the state news agency SANA. Al-Tanf is an area near the Iraqi border controlled by the United States.
Since the Syrian war began in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria, targeting the army and Iran-backed groups.
But since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, it has ramped up its strikes in Syria as hostilities with the Iran-aligned Lebanese armed group Hezbollah have intensified.
Last week, the Israeli military said it had attacked transit routes on the Syrian-Lebanese border it said were used to transfer weapons to Hezbollah.
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