Syrian policeman killed, another wounded in Israeli attack
Syrian state media has confirmed that two police officers were targeted in the latest Israeli air strike on the country.
A member of the internal security forces was killed and another wounded “as a result of an Israeli aggression targeting the eastern entrance to the liberated city of Quneitra” in southwestern Syria, state-run SANA said without giving further details.
The Israeli military has been assaulting Syria for more than a decade, taking advantage of the country’s chaos following its civil war that started in 2011. The attacks have only intensified since 2017 to target the rising Iranian and Hezbollah presence and influence in Syria.
No Iran personnel killed in Israeli strikes on Syria: IRGC
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps denied reports that any Iranian members or commanders were killed in Israeli air strikes that targeted the Syrian capital last night.
“Conditions are currently stable and our military advisers and the command centre of the axis of resistance are working together,” an unnamed deputy for communications of the Quds Force was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA news website.
Misinformation and lies spread by Israel about killing Iranian and other “axis” commanders have tripled since Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel, he said.
Syria’s government said the Israeli military launched three missiles from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights at the Mezzeh neighbourhood of Damascus last night, resulting in the deaths of seven civilians, including children and women.
Red Cross providing aid for Syria-Lebanon crossings
The Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross has said it provided the Syrian Ministry of Health with a “shipment of essential primary health care consumables and emergency medicines”.
The purpose, it said in a post on X, is to support the current health activities of the medical points located at the Syrian Lebanese borders. The fighting has led some 220,000 people to cross the Lebanese border with Syria, 70 percent of whom are Syrians and 30 percent Lebanese, the UN said.
Israel bombed the main border crossing with Syria at Masnaa on Friday, an incident the UN called “a huge obstacle” to those flows of people continuing.
