A robust explosion was reported Tuesday at a warehouse in southern Syria used by forces combating on behalf of the Assad regime.
Arab media stated the blast occurred at a storage website used by Iranian militia teams within the Daraa province of southern Syria, the place the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has been waging an intense offensive towards insurgent teams.
The facility was positioned on the on the Damascus-Daraa highway.
Channel 10 information reported that a number of Arabic media sources attributed the explosion to an Israeli strike on the place.
The Israeli army doesn't usually touch upon alleged airstrikes in Syria, although Israeli leaders have repeatedly vowed to forestall Iran and its allies from entrenching themselves close to Israel’s border
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated it was nonetheless not clear if the blast was the consequence of an assault, and in that case, who was behind it.
Israel has warned of a rising Iranian army presence in neighboring Syria, which it sees as a menace to its security. Israel’s army has carried out strikes on Iranian and Iran-affiliated targets in Syria, together with weapons shipments to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group.
Last week Syrian state media acknowledged that two Israeli missiles struck close to Damascus International Airport, with out including any particulars.
The IDF despatched tanks and artillery cannons to the Syrian border on Sunday morning amid the renewed offensive by Assad’s forces, supported by Russian and Iranian army, towards the remaining insurgent holdouts in Syria’s southwest. Thousands of refugees from the combating have headed in the direction of the Israeli-Syrian border the place Israel has supplied some humanitarian aid.