Israel launches powerful strikes on Syrian Tartus, home to russian military base

Israel has launched strikes on the Syrian coastal city of Tartus, targeting military targets. Footage of powerful explosions has emerged online.

It was reported by the Times of Israel.

Thus, according to the report, the Israeli strikes hit military targets, and a Syrian war monitor called them the "heaviest strikes" in the area in more than a decade.

"Israeli warplanes launched strikes” targeting a series of sites, including air defense units and “surface-to-surface missile depots,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.

In addition, the SOHR called these strikes “the heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012.”

Footage of a powerful explosion appeared on social networks.

The publication added that the SOHR, which is run by one person, regularly is accused by Syrian military analysts of false reporting, inflating the number of victims, as well as their massive fabrication.

It should be noted that Tartus is a city in Syria, a port on the Mediterranean Sea, located 220 km from the Syrian capital (Damascus) and 30 km from the border with Lebanon.

Recall that the kremlin wanted to conclude an agreement with the new Syrian authorities to allow them to preserve the military base of the port of Tartus and the air base in Hmeimim.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, this happened after the Syrian army command announced the end of the rule of dictator Bashar Assad on the night of December 7-8.

At the same time, the Israel Defense Forces entered the buffer zone and several "other places" on the border with Syria on Sunday, December 8.