Sharjah 24 – AFP: An Israeli strike on northern Syria's Aleppo province killed at least 52, including 38 government soldiers and seven members of Lebanon's “Hezbollah” movement, Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Saturday.
The strikes, which started Friday, fuelled concerns of a wider regional conflagration.
The number of Syrian soldiers killed was the highest in Israeli strikes since the war with “Hamas” broke out, said the war monitor, which relies on a network of sources in Syria.
Israel rarely comments on individual strikes, and has neither confirmed nor denied the raids on Syria.
But Israel's military has said it killed the deputy head of “Hezbollah's” rocket unit in Lebanon, Ali Naim, whose death the Iran-backed group confirmed.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on social media that he visited northern Israel on Friday "to closely examine another successful termination like the one that was executed this morning", in Lebanon and Syria.
"Syria and Lebanon have become one extended battleground from the Israeli perspective," Riad Kahwaji, head of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, said.
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