On Syrian-Lebanese border | Israeli airstrike targets site near regime forces checkpoint in Al-Qusayr countryside
Homs province: Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike targeting a site near a regime forces checkpoint in Wadi Hanna area in Al-Qusayr countryside, south-west of Homs, on the Syrian-Lebanese border, amid the flight of Israeli drones and the air defences’ attempt to confront them. No causalities were reported.
This is the second Israeli targeting of the Syrian-Lebanese border today, with the continued focus of airstrikes on targeting legitimate and “illegal” crossings to limit the movements of the Lebanese “Hezbollah” and paralyze the transfer of its weapons.
SOHR documented 86 attacks in 2024: 69 airstrikes and 17 rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 159 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles. These strikes killed 221 combatants and injured 157 others. The fatalities are distributed as follows:
* 24 Iranian members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
* 43 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
* 19 Iraqi persons.
* 59 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
* 17 Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen.
* 52 regime soldiers.
* Six unidentified persons.
* Syrian person of Palestinian roots.
In addition, those attacks left 24 civilians, including a little girl and five women, dead and nearly 36 other civilians injured.
It is worth noting that one of those attacks killed Baraa Al-Qaterji, a prominent businessman close to Iranians, and his cousin.
The attacks are distributed regionally as follows:
* Damascus and Rif Dimashq: 36 attacks.
* Daraa: 16 attacks.
* Homs: 20 attacks.
* Al-Quneitra: Eight attacks.
* Tartus: Three attack.
* Deir Ezzor: One attack.
* Aleppo: Two attacks.
* Hama: Four attacks.
SOHR would like to point out that Israel sometimes targeted more than one province in a single attack.