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On Monday night, the Israeli bombing of Syria killed 11 people, most of them loyal to Damascus, according to a new balance reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The observatory’s director, Rami Abdel-Rahman, said the dead were three from the regime forces and seven militants loyal to Iran, ranging from non-Syrian nationalities to a civilian. The observatory’s first toll booth on Monday night reported that five people were killed as a result of the Israeli bombardment, which targeted military sites by regime forces southwest of Damascus and other groups loyal to Iran, including “Hezbollah” in the northern countryside of Daraa, southern Syria. Syrian official media reported that “rocket bombardments” had been bombed in the southern region. The Syrian Arab news agency “SANA” quoted a military source as saying: “Two (military) martyrs were wounded and seven soldiers were wounded” as a result of the “Zionist enemy leading an airstrike from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan. at some of our military sites south of Damascus. ” Later, he announced that a citizen was killed and his husband was injured in the bombing of a village near Damascus. This bombardment was the second of its kind against Syria during August, as Damascus announced that its defenses had been halted earlier in the month from airstrikes that Israel said its planes had launched in southern Syria. Israel rarely confirms that it has carried out raids in Syria, but reiterates that it continues to oppose what it describes as attempts by Damascus-supporting Tehran to establish its military presence in Syria and send advanced weapons to Hezbollah. In recent weeks, Lebanon has witnessed tensions between “Hezbollah” and Israel. The party’s general secretary, Hassan Nasrallah, pledged on Sunday to respond to the killing of one of its members in Syria in July. He said in a televised speech: “The Israeli must understand: when you kill one of our mujahideen, we will kill one of your soldiers.” Referring to the escalation in the borders between Israel and Lebanon in recent weeks, he added: “This is all registered in the account, and your account will come.” Last Wednesday, the Israeli army announced that its forces had shelled Hezbollah checkpoints near the Lebanese border in response to the shooting it had targeted overnight. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a “strong” response in the event of new attacks from Lebanon. On July 27, the Israeli army announced that it had waged “fighting” on the border with Lebanon after foiling an attempt to infiltrate a “terrorist cell” on the other side of the border. Netanyahu said at the time that the party was “playing with fire.” However, Hezbollah denied having had any confrontation with the Israeli side and reports that an infiltration attempt by its members had been thwarted.
News of the exchange of gunfire at the time came after Israeli media reports suggested a possible Hezbollah response, after one of its operatives was killed a few days ago in an airstrike near Damascus, which accused Israel. to launch and promised to respond to it.
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