May 29. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Israeli Army has carried out this Sunday an attack against several positions in the vicinity of the Syrian capital, Damascus, as indicated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has indicated that it would be several bases of the Shiite party-militia Lebanese Hezbollah.
The body, based in London and informants in the Arab country, has indicated through its website that this attack perpetrated by Israeli troops is number 17 since the beginning of the year, without this having so far resulted in any victims.
For its part, the Syrian Ministry of Defense has indicated that the Israeli Army has launched an attack around 11:45 p.m. (local time) from the Golan Heights, “targeting some points in the vicinity of Damascus.” Also, according to a military source, the Syrian air defense has “hit the missiles, shooting down some of them, reducing the losses to materials.”
Israel generically recognizes attacks in Syria arguing that it acts to prevent the establishment of Iranian bases in the country and the shipment of weapons to the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah by the Iranian authorities, which support Damascus within the framework of the war that broke out in 2011.
The Golan Heights is a territory that Israel partially seized from Syria during the Six-Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973) and that it effectively annexed in 1981, in a move not recognized by the community international.
