The official Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Sunday that an Israeli air strike targeted 3 cars loaded with medical and relief supplies inside the industrial city in hummuscausing material damage.
The agency quoted the director of the industrial city in the town of Hasya in Homs, saying, “There is no targeting of any factory inside the industrial city, and the sound of the explosion that was heard in the city resulted from an Israeli air attack.”
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Israeli raid today targeted trucks loaded with food and medical supplies in an Iranian car factory, in the Hasbaa industrial area, located south of the city.
According to the Observatory, the raid resulted in the injury of 3 people “from the relief teams,” and the destruction of trucks that “were coming from Iraq to provide humanitarian aid to the Lebanese affected by the Israeli raids.”
In recent days, Israel has intensified its targeting of points near the border crossings between Syria and Lebanon, through which tens of thousands have recently crossed to escape the heavy Israeli raids on Lebanon.
An Israeli raid, at dawn last Friday, targeted the Masnaa area in eastern Lebanon, cutting off the international road between Lebanon and Syria, and came after Israel accused Hezbollah Using the crossing to transport weapons, Israel has also repeatedly launched air strikes inside Syria in recent days.
One of them, last Wednesday, in the Mezzeh area in Damascus, led to the killing of Hassan Jaafar Qasir, the son-in-law of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah. Hassan Nasrallahwho was assassinated by Israeli raids on the southern suburb of Beirut on September 27 of last year.
Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in this country, targeting regime forces positions, Iranian targets, and others by Hezbollah, an ally of Tehran and Damascus.
Israel rarely confirms the implementation of strikes, but it reiterates that it will confront what it describes as Iran’s attempts to establish its military presence in Syria. Since the start of its intensive raids in Lebanon on September 23, Israel has stressed that it will work to prevent Hezbollah’s transfer of “military means” from Syria. To Lebanon.