Syrian state media has blamed the Israel Defense Forces for a multi-site attack Wednesday night on Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Damascus. Few details were made available by Syria media about the area of southern Damascus where Iranian-backed terror groups have a string of underground bases.
BREAKING| Airstrikes on Damascus right now. pic.twitter.com/jW2htbnqJ4
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 28, 2024
“Around 21:35 this evening, the “Israeli” enemy launched an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting several points in the Damascus countryside,” the Syrian Ministry of Defense said. “Our air defense systems confronted the aggression’s missiles and shot down most of them. The losses were limited to material damages.”
#BREAKING – ???New air strikes by the #Israeli Air Force in #Sayyida #Zeinab area, suburbs of #Damascus on #Iranian and or #Hezbollah locations. pic.twitter.com/a5fL7fIPoe
— WorldWarThreeNews (@MORROGKEUKENMES) February 28, 2024
Syrian opposition media reported four explosions resulting from shelling on two sites in Sayyida Zeinab and Babilla in southern Damascus; a barracks belonging to pro-Iranian operatives and the other a residential building that was reportedly a stronghold of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military force.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah-linked Al Mayadeen news outlet reported that a “big explosion” was heard in the Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood of the Syrian capital.
Whatever the Syria air defense attempted to do, it doesn't seem to have worked. pic.twitter.com/OiLG6UeDsb
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) February 28, 2024
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that at least two Hezbollah members of Syrian nationality were killed and six were injured in the strikes.
