A strike inside Syria early Friday killed dozens of Syrian soldiers and some members of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah, a Hezbollah spokesperson told The Washington Post; Syrian state news agency blamed Israel for the attack. In Israel.
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Damage is shown near a residential building in the Kafr Sousa district of Damascus on Feb. 21 from an Israeli airstrike. There have been periodic Israeli attacks on Hezbollah targets and in Syria since the Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel, but Friday's incident was the deadliest. (Firas Makdesi/The Associated Press)
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Three security sources told Reuters that 33 Syrians and five Hezbollah fighters had been killed in the strikes. One of the Hezbollah fighters was a local field commander whose brother had been killed in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon in November, one of the sources said.
It marks the biggest escalation since the two heavily armed foes fought a month-long war in 2006. A United Nations resolution put an end to the Hezbollah-Israel war in Lebanon, but diplomatic efforts have so far failed to bring an end to current cross-border shelling.
In a separate incident, the Israeli military said on Friday it had killed Ali Abed Akhsan Naim, deputy commander of Hezbollah's rocket and missiles unit, in an airsrike in the area of Bazouriye in Lebanon. It said he was one of the Iranian-backed militia's leaders in heavy warhead rocket fire and was responsible for conducting and planning attacks against Israeli civilians.
Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire across Lebanon's southern border in parallel with the Gaza war. More than 270 Hezbollah fighters and 50 civilians — including medics, civilians and journalists, have been killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. About a dozen Israeli troops and half as many civilians have been killed in northern Israel.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-syria-airstrikes-hezbollah-1.7159487
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