Israeli strikes on Syria’s Palmyra kills 36, state media say

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******** strikes on Syria’s Palmyra ****** 36, state media say

At least 36 people have been ******* and 50 others injured in ******** air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report.

The Sana news agency cited a military source as saying that ******** jets attacked from the direction of the Jordanian border to the south at around 13:30 (10:30 GMT) and that the strikes causes significant material damage.

A ***-based monitoring group put the ****** toll at 41 and reported that the strikes hit a weapons depot and other locations in and around an area inhabited by families of Iran-backed militia fighters.

The ******** military said it did not comment on foreign reports.

******* has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in Syria that it says are linked to Iran and allied armed groups such as Hezbollah.

The ******** strikes in Syria have reportedly been more frequent since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, in response to cross-border attacks on northern ******* by Hezbollah and other groups in Lebanon and Syria.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a ***-based monitoring group, cited its sources on the ground as saying that ******** fighter jets struck three locations in the town.

Two were in the al-Jamiya neighbourhood, including a weapons depot near the industrial zone inhabited by families of Iran-backed fighters of Iraqi and other foreign nationalities, it said.

The third location was nearby and targeted a meeting attended by leaders of Iran-backed militias based in Palmyra and the surrounding desert as well as leaders of the Iraqi group Nujaba and Hezbollah, it added.

The SOHR reported that 41 people were *******, including 22 foreign nationals and seven Syrians, and seven civilians were among the injured.

Last Thursday, ******* confirmed that it had carried out several air strikes in the Syrian capital, Damascus, which Syrian state media said ******* 15 people.

The ******** military said it had struck “********** infrastructure sites and command centres” belonging to the armed group ************ Islamic ******.

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