The Israeli army carried out several strikes in western Syria on the night of Sunday December 15 to Monday December 16, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Intense Israeli strikes targeted military sites in the coastal region of Tartous in Syria on the night of Sunday December 15 to Monday December 16, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“Israeli warplanes launched strikes” on several sites, including air defense units and “surface-to-surface missile depots,” according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in what the NGO described as “the heaviest strikes since 2012” in this coastal region of Tartous, which is home to a Russian naval base.
Double the population of the annexed Golan
Since Assad's flight, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on Syrian territory, targeting both chemical weapons warehouses and Syrian navy air defenses, in order to prevent the weapons from falling into the hands of rebels, according to Israeli authorities.
In addition, the Israeli government on Sunday approved a plan to double the population in the part of the Syrian Golan annexed by Israel.
Just a few hours after the fall on December 8 of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, driven from power by rebels, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to seize this buffer zone controlled by the UN separating the two countries on the Golan Heights.
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