The Syrian Observatory: three members of the ranks of groups loyal to Hezbollah and Iran, including a Syrian are killed in Israeli bombing of a school in the northern countryside of Quneitra
Three militants loyal to Iran and Hezbollah were killed in an Israeli bombardment on Tuesday night, in the Quneitra province in southern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The director of the Syrian Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP that “the three dead belonged to the ‘Syrian Resistance to the Liberation of the Golan’ group, which was established by the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah more than six years ago in the Golan Heights, and headed by the leader of the party, Samir Kuntar, before he was killed in an Israeli bombing in Syria at the end of 2015.
Abdel Rahman explained that among the three officers was a Syrian, while the nationalities of the other two dead were not known.
After midnight, the official Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported that “the Israeli enemy launched an attack at midnight against a school in the northern countryside of Quneitra,” which caused damage to it.
Abdel Rahman, in turn, said that members of the fighting group “were present at night in one of the buildings belonging to the school,” after it was likely that the bombing targeted the headquarters of “Iranian militias” at night.
In recent years, Israel has intensified its bombardment rate in Syria, targeting mainly sites of the Syrian Army, Iranian and Hezbollah targets.
Israel rarely confirms the implementation of these strikes, but it will repeat that it will continue to oppose what it describes as Iran’s attempts to establish its military presence in Syria and to send advanced weapons to Hezbollah.
