Military escalation | Israeli forces fire a tank shell on Rif Dimashq

Rif Dimashq province: Israeli forces fired a tank shell on Dribal and Tanoura in south western Rif Dimashq near the occupied Al-Golan, where explosions were heard in the targeted sites that hold military checkpoints of the regime forces. However, no casualties were reported.

SOHR documented 99 attacks in 2024: 80 airstrikes and 19 rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 186 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles. These strikes killed 252 combatants and injured 179 others. The fatalities are distributed as follows:

25 Iranian members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

45 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.

28 Iraqi persons.

75 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.

24 Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen.

55 regime soldiers.

In addition, those attacks left 30 civilians, including two children and eight women, dead and nearly 45 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: 43 attacks.

Daraa: 17 attacks.

Homs: 19 attacks.

Al-Quneitra: Nine attacks.

Tartus: Three attacks.

Deir Ezzor: Five attacks.

Aleppo: Two attacks.

Hama: Two attacks.

Al-Suwaidaa: One attack.

Latakia: One attack.

SOHR would like to point out that Israel sometimes targeted more than one province in a single attack.