Two missiles hit “weapons depots belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah (militant group) as well as Iranian forces” in Kisweh. Another missile hit the area of Harfa, where there is a Syrian military base, the Britain-based monitor said. Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes in neighboring Syria against what it says are Iranian targets, many of them in the area south of Damascus. The accidental downing of a Russian transport aircraft by Syrian ground batteries during an Israel air strike on September 17 killed 15 service personnel. Russia subsequently upgraded Syrian air defenses with the delivery of the advanced S-300 system, which Damascus had said last month would make Israel “think carefully” before carrying out further air raids.

Source: Egypt Independent December 01, 2018 08:26 UTC