Numerous videos shared on social media show a series of explosions after Israeli strikes on an ammunition depot, which reportedly took place near the town of Tartus in northwestern Syria. The latter would have caused an earthquake of magnitude 3 on the Richter scale.
Since the fall of regime of Bashar al-Assad, the Israeli army has carried out airstrikes on several occasions Syrian military sites. Actions that it continued during the night of Sunday December 15 to Monday December 16, in the coastal region of Tartous, targeting “surface-to-surface missile warehouses”reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).
“Israeli fighter jets carried out a series of airstrikes, the most violent since the start of the airstrikes on Syrian territory in 2012, where 18 airstrikes targeted positions on the Syrian coastline, adds the NGO.
An earthquake
According to I24News and The Sun, the attacks carried out by the Israeli army on these ammunition depots would have caused an earthquake measuring 3 on the Richter scale and while other strikes were carried out in parallel on Syrian territory.
On the videos shared by our colleagues from Lorient-Le Jour, we can see an impressive ball of fire with a mushroom-shaped plume of smoke who rose into the sky.
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