Israel yesterday bombed a Syrian coastal city, while the US conducted multiple strikes on targets in Yemen nearly a month into Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Syria, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Hezbollah and Hamas in Gaza all belong to the so-called “axis of resistance” led by Iran, which on Oct. 1 conducted a missile strike on Israel.
Israel has vowed to retaliate for the strike.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami yesterday said in a speech that Tehran would hit Israel “painfully” if it attacks Iranian targets.
“If you make a mistake and attack our targets, whether in the region or in Iran, we will strike you again painfully,” Salami said.
He was speaking at the funeral of a Revolutionary Guards general who was killed in an Israeli strike on south Beirut last month that also killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
Syrian state media reported that an Israeli strike on the city of Latakia wounded two people.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said that the Israeli raid “targeted a weapons depot in Latakia city.”
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the Latakia bombing.
Lebanon’s health ministry said that 16 people were killed and 52 wounded in strikes on two municipal buildings in the southern city of Nabatiyeh, where Hezbollah and its ally Amal hold sway.
The strikes “formed a kind of belt of fire,” a local official told reporters, adding that the mayor of Nabatiyeh was among the dead.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said that Israel “deliberately targeted a meeting of the municipal council that was discussing the city’s services and relief situation.”
In Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, the US conducted multiple B-2 bomber strikes on weapon storage facilities, according to the US military and the US Department of Defense.
“US forces targeted several of the Houthis’ underground facilities housing various weapons components of types that the Houthis have used to target civilian and military vessels throughout the region,” US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
The B-2 is a stealth aircraft capable of flying non-stop from the US, the US Air Force says on its Web site.
Hamas, which rules Gaza, sparked the war with Israel when it attacked on Oct. 7 last year, killing 1,206 people, according to a tally of official Israeli figures.
In support of its ally Hamas, Hezbollah opened up a front against Israel by launching cross-border attacks last year.
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