Second round in a week | Israeli airstrikes attack warehouses in the industrial city in Al-Qusair in Homs countryside
Israeli fighter jets conducted several airstrikes attacked warehouses in the industrial city in Al-Qusair and buildings on the outskirts Al-Qusair in Homs countryside near Syria-Lebanon border, where seven violent explosions were heard and smoke was seen rising from the targeted sites, amid initial information about casualties.
On October 31, SOHR sources reported that Israeli fighter jets launched three airstrikes on areas in Al-Qaseer City and its vicinity, targeting a weapon depot of Hezbollah, a warehouse, a fuel station in the industrial area in Al-Qaseer City, a position in the area of Hawsh Al-Said Ali crossing and the position of Al-Duff Bridge southern of Al-Qaseer City.
The attack left 12 people dead and two civilians and seven members working for Lebanese Hezbollah, injured. The fatalities are distributed as follows:
Eight civilians
Four Syrians working for Hezbollah.
SOHR documented 138 attacks in 2024: 112 airstrikes and 26 rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 254 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles. These strikes killed 274 combatants and injured 204 others. The fatalities are distributed as follows:
* 25 Iranian members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
* 54 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
* 28 Iraqi persons.
* 80 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
* 25 Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen.
* 62 regime soldiers.
In addition, those attacks left 51 civilians, including six children, 13 women and a Lebanese man, dead and nearly 58 other civilians injured.
The total civilian death toll includes a Yemeni doctor, his wife and their three children, two women, a child and a man who were killed in the Israeli strike which targeted a building in Al-Mazzah neighbourhood in Damascus.
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: 51 attacks.
* Daraa: 17 attacks.
* Homs: 42 attacks.
* Al-Quneitra: 16 attacks.
* Tartus: Three attacks.
* Deir Ezzor: Five attacks.
* Aleppo: Two attacks.
* Hama: Four attacks.
* Al-Suwaidaa: Two attacks.
* Latakia: Two attacks.
SOHR would like to point out that Israel sometimes targeted more than one province in a single attack.