Syria war monitor reports Israeli strikes targeting military sites

A Syria war monitor says that overnight Israeli strikes targeted military positions and depots in several parts of the country.

“Since the initial hours after the announcement of the fall of the former regime, Israel began launching intensive air strikes, deliberately destroying weapons and ammunitions depots,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The targets of the overnight strikes included “air defence weapons depots and ammunition depots” belonging to the Syrian military in the coastal Latakia and Tartus provinces, said the Observatory.

The Britain-based monitor, which has a network of sources inside Syria, said Israel also launched strikes in the country’s south targeting Tal al-Hara near the Israeli-annexed Syrian Golan Heights, and military positions in Izraa, in Daraa province.

Further Israeli strikes destroyed warehouses holding “anti-tank weapons” in the Qalamoun area in the Damascus countryside, the Observatory added.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Israeli warplanes struck suspected chemical weapons sites and long-range rockets in Syria so they wouldn’t fall into the hands of “extremists”.