Israeli jet bombs Syrian army one week after flattening Iran’s consulate

Israeli warplanes bombed Deraa in the south of Syria late on 9 April in response to a rocket attack from Syrian territory towards Israel. 

“Israeli forces missiles on a military position in Tel Al-Jabiyah in Daraa countryside, responding to an attack with missiles by Iran-backed groups and Hezbollah from Syrian territory towards the occupied Syrian Golan Heights,” the opposition-linked war monitor, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. 

In a statement, the Israeli army said its jets “attacked military infrastructures of the Syrian army in the Mahaja region,” adding that it “attacked with artillery fire a position of the Syrian army in the south of the country” in response to a rocket launch from Syria. 

According to SOHR, Israel has attacked Syria 33 times since the start of 2024.