Syrian opposition sources reported that Israeli Air Force planes attacked posts belonging to the Syrian army and the terrorist group Hezbollah on Monday. The attack killed 13 soldiers and Hezbollah fighters and injured dozens, four seriously. There is no confirmation from a Syrian government source.
The sources said the Air Force attacked Syrian regime and Hezbollah militia outposts in the Qalamun Mountains on the Syria-Lebanon border. The website A-Surya, which opposes the regime, reported that Israeli Air Force planes circled the Qalamun skies on the outskirts of Damascus, and then attacked a joint outpost of the Assad regime and Hezbollah in Ras al-Maara twice. In a third sortie, that IAF aircraft attacked an outpost in Qara, and a fourth sortie attacked a Hezbollah outpost in the western Qalamun.
The same report also claimed that the attack killed eight members of Hezbollah and another five soldiers of the regime. In addition, the IAF fire injured dozens of others, who were evacuated to the hospital Yabroud Hospital (popularly known as “the slaughterhouse”), while the other four whose condition was described as serious were evacuated to a hospital in Er-Nabak.
The Qalamun Mountains, near the Lebanese border, are a major transit area for the Hezbollah fighters and their logistical equipment moving to and from Syria.