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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Israeli airstrike in Syria kills more than 40 people, says war monitor

An Israeli airstrike lights up the night sky
An Israeli airstrike lights up the night sky in Aleppo, Syria, in the early hours of Friday morning. Photograph: X.com

Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s Aleppo province have killed more than 40 people, including members of Hezbollah and a large number of Syrian soldiers in an area near the militant Lebanese organisation’s weapons depots, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

As many as 42 people were killed in what contradictory reports described as air and drone strikes in the early hours of Friday that hit missile depots for Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group in Aleppo’s southern suburb of Jibreen, near Aleppo’s international airport, and a nearby town that houses a military facility.

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