At least 10 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the town of Nawa in Syria's southern Daraa province, a Syrian television channel reported.
Earlier, Al-Ikhbaria TV channel reported that the Israeli military shelled the outskirts of the villages of Tel-Jumah and Tel-al-Jabiya, which are located near Nawa. In turn, Al-Watan newspaper reported that the Israeli army raided Nawa. She noted that the residents of this city and villages in the western part of Daraa resisted the military and forced them to retreat.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry, which is subordinate to the transitional government of the Arab Republic, reported that dozens of civilians and soldiers were injured in a series of Israeli strikes.
The ministry said that Israeli forces bombed five areas of the country, which led to the almost complete destruction of the military airport in Hama.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that the Israeli attacks are "a flagrant violation of international law and Syria's sovereignty" and constitute an attempt to destabilize the situation in the country. “The Syrian Arab Republic calls on the international community to take a firm position and put pressure on Israel to stop its aggression and comply with international law and its obligations under the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement. between Israel and Syria“, the text says.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked military airfields in the provinces of Hama and Homs in central Syria. The planes carried out more than 20 strikes, most of which hit a former airbase in the vicinity of the city of Hama, the administrative center of the province of the same name, 220 km from Damascus. An airstrike was also carried out against the T4 airport near Palmyra (240 km from Damascus). In Damascus, a military facility in the Masaken Berzi area, which belonged to the former Syrian army, was attacked.