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Israeli attack targets Syria’s Homs countryside

Syrian state media said that Israel had carried out an air raid in a region near the border with Lebanon.

The SANA news agency said that “the Israeli aggression” on the Homs region had been met with a barrage of anti-aircraft fire.

Israel says it has been carrying out strikes to reduce the transfer of weapons from Iran through Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon, which it said had spread to the town of al-Qusayr, near the Syrian-Lebanese border.

SANA news agency is reporting that Israeli planes targeted bridges along the Orontes river and roads around the border. It added that the attack on the Homs region had been met with a barrage of anti-aircraft fire.


The strikes caused “significant damage”, a military source cited by the agency said, putting some of the infrastructure out of action.

 

Israel says strikes targeted Syria-Lebanon smuggling route

The Israeli army said it struck smuggling routes between Syria and Lebanon to reduce the transfer of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah.

The military said in a statement that it launched an air raid on the border area as part of a “larger effort targeting the capabilities of Unit 4400, the Hezbollah unit responsible for smuggling weapons”.

It added that the Lebanese group continued to transfer weapons with the help of the Syrian regime.



US military reports strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen

US Central Command has said its forces struck multiple weapons storage facilities in Yemen on Saturday and Sunday.

“These facilities housed a variety of advanced conventional weapons used by the Iran-backed Houthis to target US and international military and civilian vessels navigating international waters in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden,” CENTCOM said in a statement today.

It added that the strikes were conducted in response to repeated Houthi attacks on “US and international military and civilian vessels navigating international waters in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden”.

The Houthis have pledged to attack ships in the waterways in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.