BEIRUT — Two civilians were among four people killed
by Israeli strikes on Wednesday that targeted a part of Syria where fighters
loyal to Lebanon's
Hezbollah are based, a monitor said.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a
Britain-based group that relies on sources on the ground, said the Israeli
missiles struck an area near three villages in the west of Homs province.
The raid killed four people, including two civilians, said
the war monitor, although it was unable to determine whether the other two
deaths were civilians or soldiers.
The official Syrian news agency SANA, citing a military
official, said two civilians had been killed and seven people wounded in the
strikes that were conducted at dawn.
"The (Israeli) aggression resulted in the death of two
civilians and injured six soldiers and one civilian," the military
official was quoted as saying.
The strikes targeted positions in the central part of the
country, it said, without giving further details on the location.
Syria's air defenses "repelled the aggression and shot
down most" of the missiles, SANA said, quoting the same source.
The Israeli military, which rarely acknowledges individual
strikes on Syria, declined to comment on "reports in the foreign media.”
Israel has said repeatedly it will not allow neighboring
Syria to become a launchpad for Iran.
Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has
carried out hundreds of air strikes on Syrian territory, targeting government
positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah fighters.
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