April 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Israeli Army has bombed military positions in the Daraa governorate, in southern Syria, in response to an attack by the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah and other pro-Iran militias from Syrian territory against the occupied Golan Heights.
Israeli forces have fired on the town of Tal al Jabiya, which was also targeted by Israel less than a week ago in a similar incident, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported.
For its part, Hezbollah has published a video of its artillery firing at Israeli positions in Yoav and Keila, both located in the aforementioned Golan Heights, according to the Lebanese Al Manar television network, linked to the group.
The Observatory, based in London but an informant in the Arab country, has recorded 33 Israeli attacks against Syrian positions so far in 2024 and in which it has managed to kill 129 soldiers or militiamen and wound another 47. In addition, a dozen of civilians have died and another 20 have been injured as a result of these actions.
The Golan Heights are a territory that Israel seized from Syria during the Six-Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973) and that it effectively annexed in 1981, in a movement not recognized by the international community. .
The Israeli authorities, who have not commented on this new bombing, recognize attacks in Syria arguing that they act to prevent the establishment of Iranian bases and the sending of weapons to Hezbollah by Tehran, which supports the Syrian president, Bashar al Assad. , within the framework of the war that broke out in 2011 after the violent repression of pro-democratic demonstrations within the framework of the 'Arab Spring'.
