Five people, including three civilians, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Homs area in central Syria late Tuesday-Wednesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, while Damascus announced that the airstrikes caused casualties among civilians.
The director of the observatory, Rami Abdul Rahman, told AFP, “Five people were killed, including three civilians, a woman, a child, and a man, and seven others were injured as a result of an Israeli airstrike on a building in the Al-Hamra neighborhood in the city of Homs.”
Meanwhile, the Syrian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that “the Israeli enemy launched an aerial aggression from the north of Tripoli (in northern Lebanon), targeting several points in the city of Homs and its countryside. Our air defense forces intercepted the aggression missiles and shot down some of them. The aggression resulted in the martyrdom and injury of a number of civilians.”
Syrian state television aired footage showing rescue workers searching among the rubble of what appears to be a collapsed building and evacuating a person on a stretcher.
Abdul Rahman told AFP that the building hit in the airstrike completely collapsed.
Earlier, Syrian state television reported that “a Zionist aggression targeted some areas in Homs and its countryside.”
Last week, the United States launched four strikes in response to an attack targeting its forces in Jordan, targeting Iran-backed factions in Syria and Iraq, resulting in dozens of deaths.
In January, Israeli strikes near Damascus killed eight people, including fighters loyal to Iran, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Over the past years, occupying forces have carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria, mainly targeting Iranian targets and others belonging to Hezbollah, including warehouses, weapon shipments, and Syrian army positions.
