Foreign reports: The Israeli Air Force is carrying out extensive airstrikes all over Syria. Here are the updates.
In the last hours, the official news agencies in Syria are reporting that Israeli warplanes flying off the coast of southern Lebanon are launching cruise missiles at a large number of targets throughout Syria.
So far, Israeli attacks have been reported in the areas of Damascus, Homs, Hamat, Mezaif, Tartus.
What all the attacked sites have in common is that they are under the full control of Iran and Hezbollah or that they are Syrian military sites that were "lent" to the Iranians in order to hide them from the eyes of the attackers.
Photos from the attacked websites are uploaded to the social networks in Syria.
Below are current updates from the attacked areas in Syria as they appear on social networks:
*- The targets that were attacked in the Zayaf area are factories for the assembly of precision ballistic missiles that integrate precision navigation systems for the targets brought by the Iranians and mounted on the missiles.
*- The Syrian media claim that Israel has carried out this evening, so far, about 15 airstrikes, and that the current attack is considered the most difficult and extensive in years.
*- The director of the Syrian Center for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told the Al-Arabiya network that Israel attacked the scientific research center and another facility in Mesyaf in the rural area of Hamat and the sounds of the explosions heard in Damascus, Homs, and Tartus are explosions of missiles launched from the Syrian air defense systems and tried to intercept the The cruise missiles launched from the Israeli helicopters towards the targets on Syrian soil.
*- Hezbollah's central headquarters in Syria was attacked. Reports of a large number of casualties at the scene.
*- Reports: A fourth wave of attacks by Israeli warplanes on targets in Syria has now started, at 00:19.
*- A huge fire in the Wadi El-Ayoun in Mezaif where there are central missile depots of the Iranians and Hezbollah in Syria.
*- Reports from Syria: Israel attacked today the worst attack in years. Among other things, a development and research center of the Syrian Air Force (which apparently worked for the Iranians) was also attacked.
*- At least 5 dead in the Israeli attack on 6 sites belonging to the Revolutionary Guards in Masiaf, in the rural area of Hama.
*- Syrian report: The extensive Israeli attack this evening was in fact pre-emptive attacks on the sites of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in several cities, the most important of which was "Masiyaf", where a plan for an Iranian attack that was supposed to be launched in the coming hours was thwarted.
*- Military experts: The attack on 12 military sites in Syria is the largest and most violent since 2017, and there are rumors that senior commanders in the Revolutionary Guards were killed in the attack this evening.