Israeli attack on Syria, two people injured

On Saturday, an Israeli attack on Syria’s west coast injured two civilians, the Syrian defense ministry said.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air strike” around 6:30 am near the city of Al-Hamidiyah, the ministry said in a statement, identifying the places affected as poultry farms, without elaborating.

The attack was carried out from the Mediterranean Sea, west of the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, and “resulted in the wounding of two civilians, including a woman,” the statement said.
Since the civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes against its northern neighbor.

The raids targeted Syrian government troops as well as Iranian-backed allied forces and fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah.

Last month, Israeli attacks on Damascus International Airport rendered its runways unusable for weeks.
In addition to the extensive damage caused to civilian and military leads, war monitoring by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks targeted nearby warehouses used as weapons depots by Iran and Hezbollah.

The Syrian war claimed the lives of nearly half a million people and forced about half of the country’s pre-war population to flee their homes.