DAMASCUS, Feb 28, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – At least three Syrian soldiers were
wounded by Israeli helicopter fire near the annexed Golan Heights late
Thursday, the official SANA agency reported.
“Israeli helicopters launched missiles above the occupied Golan Heights,
hitting (Syrian) army positions at Kahtaniyeh, Al-Horiyyat and the liberated
town of Quneitra, leaving three wounded among the troops,” SANA said.
It comes after a Syrian linked to the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah
was killed in a cross-border Israeli drone strike earlier Thursday, a war
monitor said.
The strike targeted his car in Haidar village in Quneitra province near the
annexed Golan Heights, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head Rami
Abdel Rahman told AFP.
An informed source named the man as Imad Tawil, while Syria’s official news
agency SANA said he was a civilian resident of Haidar.
The Jewish state has carried out hundreds of strikes on regime targets as
well as forces of the government’s Iranian and Hezbollah allies since the
Syrian conflict erupted in 2011.
On Sunday night, Israeli air strikes near Damascus killed six pro-regime
fighters, according to the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a
network of sources inside Syria.