[News] Israeli jets bombard Syrian army base

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Israeli jets bombard Syrian army base

Eight Syrian soldiers were injured in the Israeli attack near Syria's
capital Damascus

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

MAY 3, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-jets-bombard-syrian-army-base
(Photo credit: Reuters)

Eight Syrian soldiers were injured in an Israeli airstrike near the
capital, Damascus, on the evening of 2 May.

“At approximately 10:05 PM on Thursday evening, the Israeli enemy launched
an air attack from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting
one site in the vicinity of Damascus. The aggression resulted in the injury
of eight military personnel and some material losses,” a Syrian military
source told SANA news agency.

*Reuters *cited an unnamed source as saying that a security building was
targeted in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday night.

*Sputnik*’s correspondent in Damascus said that the Syrian army attempted
to intercept the Israeli missiles with its air defenses.

According to the opposition-linked war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights (SOHR), a site belonging to Syria’s General Intelligence, was
targeted. It added that Israel has bombed Syria 36 times since the start of
2024.

SOHR also claimed that the targeted site hosts a presence of Lebanon’s
Hezbollah.

On 19 April, the Syrian Defense Ministry reported an Israeli attack
targeted Syria’s air defense sites, resulting in some material damage.
Earlier in the month, on 9 April, Israeli warplanes bombed
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24310> Deraa in the south of Syria, in
response to a rocket attack from Syrian territory towards Israel.

Israel has been attacking Syria for several years, targeting what it says
are Iranian and Hezbollah interests in the country in an attempt to stifle
Tehran’s military support for the resistance in Lebanon. This unofficial
campaign, which Israel does not publicly acknowledge, has been referred to
as ‘the battle between wars.’

However, the strikes have been unable to affect the flow of weaponry to
Hezbollah.

“The ongoing battle between wars has seen the resistance in Lebanon
significantly augment its weapons capabilities in terms of quantity,
quality, and diversity. This represents a substantial strategic setback for
Israel, which has expended vast sums on its strategy in Syria without
achieving its objectives,” Khalil Nasrallah, Lebanese journalist and expert
on regional affairs, wrote for *The Cradle*
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24198>on 2 April.
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