Over 40 Killed in Israeli Strikes on Syria’s Aleppo
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s northern province of Aleppo have killed more than 40 people, most of them soldiers, according to news agencies and a war monitor.
The fatalities included six members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), as it raised the death toll to 42 and said dozens of people were injured.
The attacks at about 1:45 am on Friday (22:45 GMT on Thursday) targeted several areas in Aleppo’s countryside, Syria’s Ministry of Defense said. It did not provide casualty figures, only saying that a number of civilians and military personnel were killed and property was damaged after Israel and unnamed armed groups carried out the strikes, according to Syria’s state news agency SANA.
The SOHR said in posts on X that Israeli strikes hit a weapons depot near Aleppo International Airport, resulting in a series of large explosions, Al Jazeera reported.
At least 36 Syrian soldiers were killed, it said, adding that Hezbollah weapons depots were located in the area.
The Israeli military has not confirmed the attacks.
Israel has for years carried out strikes in Syria, where the resistance groups, including Hezbollah, hold sway in eastern, southern and northwestern areas of the country, as well as the suburbs around the capital, Damascus.
Its attacks have escalated since the start of the current war in Gaza in October and it has also struck Syrian army air defenses and some Syrian forces.