DAMASCUS —
An
Israeli air strike wounded two civilians on Saturday in the Syrian
government’s heartland on the war-torn country’s west coast, the defense
ministry said.
اضافة اعلان
“The Israeli
enemy carried out an air strike” after daybreak near the town of Al-Hamidiyah,
the ministry said, identifying the locations hit as poultry farms.
The strike was
conducted from the
Mediterranean Sea, west of Lebanon’s northern city of
Tripoli, and “led to the injury of two civilians, including a woman”, it said
in a statement.
“Israel
continues to regularly violate Syria’s sovereignty,” the UK-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights war monitor, adding that the animal husbandry was
“believed to be used militarily and commercially by Lebanese Hezbollah”.
Iranian Foreign
Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian condemned the Israeli strike.
“With its
attacks, (Israel) is trying to portray
Damascus as an unsafe city to obstruct
the return of displaced Syrians,” he said on Saturday during a visit to the
Syrian capital.
Video footage by
Syrian’s official news agency SANA showed rubble at what it said was the site
of the targeted facility.
People are seen
inspecting the site, where pulverized chunks of concrete and iron lay on the
earth in the middle of a field.
Al-Hamidiyah is
located south of Tartus, a bastion of the Syrian government and home to a naval
port used by Russia, whose armed forces have backed Assad.
Since civil war
broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes
against Syria.
Syrian air
defense systems did not appear to have been deployed, the observatory said.
Last month
Israeli airstrikes on Damascus International Airport rendered its runways
unusable for weeks and caused extensive damage to civilian and military
runways.
The Syrian war
has claimed the lives of nearly half a million people and forced around half of
the country’s pre-war population from their homes.
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