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CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli strikes targeting the Syrian governorate of Aleppo have killed at least 38 people, including five Hezbollah members, several security sources said on Friday.
This air operation is the most intense carried out in the region by the Israeli army against armed groups supported by Iran since the attack carried out on October 7 by Hamas in southern Israel.
Partners of the Bashar al Assad regime, the armed movements supported by Tehran are scattered across Syrian territory, particularly around Aleppo, a large city located in the northwest of the country, and Damascus, its capital.
Israel regularly targets airports near these two cities, seeking to disrupt the flow of weapons intended for pro-Iranian fighters.
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According to the Syrian Defense Ministry, Israeli strikes hit several areas in the southeast of Aleppo governorate overnight, killing many civilians as well as soldiers.
The attack coincided with drone strikes carried out by “terrorist organizations” from Idlib and rural areas of the Aleppo region, the same source said.
Three security sources told Reuters that five members of Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian Lebanese Shiite movement, were among those killed. Among them was a local commander, whose brother was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon in November, one of the sources said.
The Israeli army declined to comment.
Reacting on the social network He did not specify whether Iranian nationals were among the victims.
(Laila Bassam, Maya Gebeily and Hatem Mahe; French version Nicolas Delame and Kate Entringer, edited by Tangi Salaün)
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