Israel’s Drone Attack Destroys Weapons Depot in Syria’s Jableh City
An Israeli drone attack on Thursday morning targeted and destroyed a weapons depot in the coastal Syrian city of Jableh, sparking massive explosions and a swift response from Syrian air defenses and Russian forces. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the attack was carried out via drones and warplane missiles, which leveled the depot and caused a series of massive explosions.
The depot is located near the Hmeimim Air Base, the largest Russian air base in Syria, situated in the northwestern province of Latakia. While no immediate reports of casualties have been reported, the Syrian air defenses and Russian forces responded to the attack within 40 to 50 minutes.
The pro-government Sham FM radio reported that the sounds heard in the skies over Jableh were the air defenses intercepting targets off the coast. Firefighting teams were dispatched to a site in the vicinity of Jableh after columns of fire were seen rising from it, but no information was provided about its nature.
This latest attack is part of a series of Israeli airstrikes in Syria this week. On Wednesday, two Lebanese nationals, including Hassan Jafar Qasir, the son-in-law of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residence in the Mazzeh Western Villas neighborhood of Damascus. On Tuesday, an Israeli missile strike hit a site about 500 meters from Wednesday’s target, killing three people, including a journalist, and injuring nine others.
Israel has frequently conducted airstrikes in Syria, targeting what it says are positions linked to Iran and Hezbollah.
