Israeli airstrikes have struck western Syria, the Israeli army and Syrian state media have mentioned, and reportedly one civilian has been killed within the first such assault on the nation in almost a month.
Earlier this month Damascus had introduced oblique talks with Israel to calm tensions, and the US known as for a “non-aggression agreement” between the 2 nations, that are technically at conflict.
“A strike from Israeli occupation aircraft targeted sites close to the village of Zama in the Jableh countryside south of Latakia,” state tv mentioned.
State information company Sana reported one civilian was killed “as a result of an Israeli occupation airstrike targeting the vicinity of Zama”.
The Israeli army mentioned it had “struck weapon storage facilities containing coastal missiles that posed a threat to international and Israeli maritime freedom of navigation, in the Latakia area of Syria”.
“In addition, components of surface-to-air missiles were struck,” it mentioned, including it could “continue to operate to maintain freedom of action in the region, in order to carry out its missions and will act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in the meantime reported that jets prone to be Israeli struck army websites on the outskirts of Tartus and Latakia.
Syria and Israel have technically been at conflict since 1948. Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and has carried out tons of of strikes and several other incursions because the overthrow of longtime Syrian chief Bashar al-Assad in December.
Israel says its strikes goal to cease superior weapons reaching Syria’s new authorities, which it considers jihadists.
