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Israel strikes missile depots, air defences in Syria’s Tartous region

Aerial view of the aftermath of an Israeli air attack on a Syrian military site near the southern port city of Tartous, on December 12, 2024 [Aaref Watad/AFP]

Israel launched overnight attacks on Syrian air defence systems and ammunition depots in its ongoing bid to disable the country’s military capability following the recent removal of President Bashar al-Assad.

War monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), said on Monday that Israel targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartous region, including air defence units and “surface-to-surface missile depots”, saying the attack featured “the heaviest strikes” in the area in more than a decade.

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