(9 Sep 2024)
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Masyaf, Syria – 9 September 2024
1. Various of burned car
2. Mid of burned signboard, reading (Arabic) "Masyaf"
3. Various of overturned bulldozer
4. Pan of burned forest
5. Exterior of Masyaf National Hospital
6. Various of wounded people inside hospital
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan Al-Ghabbash, Syrian Health Minister:
"This aggression took place consecutively. This was a brutal and barbaric aggression, and up until this moment, the death toll has risen to 18 martyrs with 37 wounded. The injuries vary from slight to medium to some critical and severe wounds."
8. Tilt up from power cables to technicians
9. Wide of workers at site
10. Various of smoke still billowing up
11. Burned entrance of a building
12. Burned car
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bashar Mahmoud, resident:
"We were in panic. The children were sleeping and woke up terrified by an unusual situation. We did not know what happened, but we saw blazes of fire billowing from the forests. We were subjected to many violent strikes."
14. Various of technicians and workers fixing power cables
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad al-Zamel, Syrian Electricity Minister:
"This brutal attack targeted civilian targets, and the martyrs were mostly civilians, as were the wounded. We are here to observe the damage (in infrastructure) and begin rehabilitating them and putting them back in service."
16. Crane truck outside Masyaf hotel
STORYLINE:
The number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes in Syria has risen to 18 with dozens more wounded, Syria’s health minister said Monday.
It was the largest death toll in such an attack since the beginning of the war in Gaza.
One of the sites targeted was a research center used in the development of weapons, a war monitor said. Syrian officials said civilian sites were targeted.
Israel regularly targets military sites in Syria linked to Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Those strikes have become more frequent as Hezbollah has exchanged fire with Israeli forces for the past 11 months against the backdrop of Israel’s war against Hamas — a Hezbollah ally — in Gaza.
However, the intensity and death toll of Sunday night’s strikes were unusual.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in recent years, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations. The strikes often target Syrian forces or Iranian-backed groups.
Israel has vowed to stop Iranian entrenchment in Syria, particularly since Syria is a key route for Iran to send weapons to Hezbollah.
Israeli strikes hit several areas in central Syria, damaging a highway in Hama province and sparking fires, Syrian state news agency SANA said.
Speaking to reporters, Syrian Health Minister Hassan al-Ghabbash described the strikes as a “brutal and barbaric aggression.”
He said the death toll had risen to 18 with nearly 40 wounded.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, said 25 were killed, including at least five civilians, while the others included Syrian army soldiers and members of Hezbollah and other Iran-linked armed groups.
One strike targeted a scientific research center in Masyaf, and others sites where “Iranian militias and experts are stationed to develop weapons in Syria,” the observatory said.
It said the research center was reportedly used for developing weapons, including short- and medium-range precision missiles and drones.
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