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The Masyaf area in the Hama field, Syria, was the target of an Israeli missile strike that took place in Lebanese airspace after midnight Thursday to Friday, when Syrian air defenses engaged it, according to the official agency of the Syrian news “SANA”.
“SANA” quoted a Syrian military source as saying that “exactly at 12:40 minutes from dawn on this day, the Israeli enemy launched an attack by directing a burst of rockets from the north of the Lebanese city of Tripoli into the area. from Masyaf in the western Hama field. Our air defense means engaged the enemy missiles and launched most of them. ” .
Furthermore, the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” reported that the Israeli bombardment targeted military centers of Syrian regime forces and Iranian groups, and warehouses within “defense laboratories” west of the town of Masyaf in the countryside of Hama, in which Iranian groups of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities are present, with no information on the size of the losses. until now.
Ambulances went to the military zone, amid confirmed information on the existence of human victims, according to the “observatory.”
The Lebanese regions, especially Beirut and its suburbs, in addition to Tripoli and Akkar, witnessed a state of panic among the population as a result of the intensive flight of Israeli fighter jets over them, coinciding with the attack, while the information indicated that Tomahawk missiles crossed from the sea over Lebanon into Syria without assuring their authenticity.
It should be noted that the Masyaf area is home to a center for the development of medium-range missiles in Al-Zawi village and Camp Al-Tala’a in Sheikh Ghadban village in Masyaf field.
On June 4 last year, the area witnessed Israeli shelling of military depots inside the “defense factories” located in the Al-Zawy district in the Masyaf camp, west of Hama, prompting great human and material losses.
According to sources from the Syrian Observatory, at least 9 people were killed by the bombing, 4 of whom were Syrian, and it was not known whether they were regime forces or worked in the ranks of Iranian forces, and 5 were unidentified.
