Israel has carried out around 10 airstrikes on the As-Safira district of Syria’s southeastern Aleppo province, causing casualties.
Israel launched airstrikes on the As-Safira district in the southeast of Aleppo province in Syria on the morning of January 3, 2025. Initial reports indicate that the strikes have left many dead and wounded. Authorities said the strikes, which took place at approximately 10 different locations, caused extensive damage to the areas targeted.
According to information obtained from local sources, the air defense base and warehouse number 404 in the Sefire region were targeted by airstrikes by Israeli forces.
According to initial reports, there were deaths and injuries in the region in approximately 10 airstrikes.
While the Israeli army is attacking land soldiers using air vehicles, there are clashes between them and armed elements in the region.
In the Sefire region, there are defense industry facilities and a military research center left over from the ousted Bashar Assad regime.
Following the escalation of conflict in Syria on November 27, the collapse of the 61-year-old Ba’ath regime on December 8, simultaneously with the Israeli army’s attacks on the country increased.
The Israeli army began destroying the military infrastructure and facilities left by the regime army and expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights.
Having entered the buffer zone around the Golan Heights, the Israeli army carried the occupation further and came within 25 kilometers of the capital Damascus.
Israel has occupied the Golan Heights, which belong to Syria, since 1967. The boundaries of the buffer zone and the demilitarized zone were determined by the Withdrawal Agreement signed between Israel and Syria in 1974.
According to Al-Jazeera, Israeli airstrikes on Aleppo province killed more than 40 people, most of them soldiers, including six Hezbollah members. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 42; Reuters said 38 had been killed. Around 1:45 am Friday, strikes targeted sites east of Aleppo International Airport with explosions and material losses. Syria’s Ministry of Defence acknowledged a number of civilian and military casualties but did not specify how many.
