Several said killed in airstrikes on Iranian-controlled weapons depots in Syria

Illustrative. An explosion reportedly caused by an Israeli strike is seen at the Mazzeh military base near Damascus, Syria

Judah Ari Gross writes in Times of Israel, “Unidentified aircraft bombed three Iranian-controlled weapons depots on Saturday night, killing several members of Tehran-supported militias, Syrian media reported. Some news outlets in the country said that four fighters were killed in the strike, while others said five. The Syrian government did not immediately release an official tally.”

“According to the Syrian Step News agency, the airstrikes occurred around 10 p.m. on Saturday, targeting three munitions storehouses in the Boulkamal region of Syria, near the Iraqi border, an area that has reportedly been hit by many Israeli raids in the past year.”…

“On Sunday, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said Israel was taking action to force Iran’s military presence out of Syria. “We are telling the Iranians: Syria will become your Vietnam,” he said, referring to the disastrous American war. “If you don’t leave, you will become entrenched and you will bleed because we will work without hesitation to remove aggressive forces from Syria,” Bennett said. The Saturday night strikes came days after reports of a similar raid in the same region.” (more…)