- An Israeli air strike has hit poultry farms on Syria’s west coast, the defence ministry says.
- Strikes also injured two civilians, including a woman, the ministry adds.
- The Israeli army say they “do not comment on reports in the foreign media” Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes against its northern neighbour.
The Syrian government’s heartland on the war-torn country’s west coast was hit by an air strike from Israel on Saturday, according to the defence ministry.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air strike” after daybreak near the town of Al-Hamidiyah, the ministry said, identifying the locations hit as poultry farms, without elaborating.
The strike was carried out from the Mediterranean Sea, west of Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli, and “injured two civilians, including a woman,” according to a statement.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the facility that was struck had formerly been used to keep farm animals but was now used by Lebanon’s Shiite militant movement Hezbollah, a Syrian government ally.
The Israeli army told AFP on Saturday that they “do not comment on reports in the foreign media”.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian of Iran, also a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, condemned the Israeli strike.
“With its attacks, the Zionist entity is trying to portray Damascus as an unsafe city to obstruct the return of displaced Syrians,” he said on Saturday during a visit to the Syrian capital.
Video footage by Syrian’s official news agency SANA showed rubble at what it said was the site of the targeted facility.
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