At least three people were killed and two others were wounded Saturday afternoon in an attack on Iranian targets in the village of al D’Habia in southern Aleppo, according to “unofficial Syrian sources” quoted by the Abu Ali Express news outlet.
“At 4:20 pm (Israel time) fighter jets of the Israeli enemy attacked targets in the southern province of Aleppo,” according to the Syrian Defense Ministry, which claimed there were no casualties in the attack.
The air strikes targeted the Nayreb air base, as well as sites in and around Aleppo, in addition to a weapons storage facility belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, near the port of Latakia, according to military journalist Babak Taghvaee.
#BREAKING: Just a few minutes ago, #Israel Air Force conducted one of its largest airstrikes against #IRGC & #Syrian Army targets in #Syria. They targeted Nayreb air base, #Damascus & #Aleppo International airports as well as a weapon storage facility near #Latakia port. These… pic.twitter.com/SQq06uKziC
— Babak Taghvaee – The Crisis Watch (@BabakTaghvaee1) December 30, 2023
Four targets in and around Aleppo International Airport were hit, including an early warning radar system and a surface-to-air missile system, Taghvaee reported. Aleppo International Airport itself, however, was apparently not the target, according to a local source.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), seven pro-Iranian fighters were killed and several others were injured in the strikes, which targeted weapons warehouses and headquarters of Iran’s Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah and the IRGC’s Quds Force.
مدير #المرصد_السوري: الضربات اسـ ـتـ ـهدفت محيط مطار حلب الدولي يتواجد فيها مراكز أو مستودعات لحـ ـزب الله #اللبناني والمـ ـيـ ـلـ ـشـ ـيات الموالية لإيران.. قتـ ـل خلالها 4 مقـ ـاتـ ـلـ ـين من المجموعات الموالية لإيران وأصيب أخرون بجراح..https://t.co/v27MZ8k5QL pic.twitter.com/3m1p9ZBY1n
— المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان (@syriahr) December 30, 2023
A separate strike targeting the Quneitra countryside killed two members of the “Syrian Resistance Forces to Liberate Golan,” according to SOHR, which claimed that 25 “Syrian and non-Syrian” members of groups working with Iran were killed in less than 24 hours.
