Israel Declines to Comment on Fresh Airstrikes Against Missile Warehouses in Syria

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says of the Golan Heights, ‘We will continue to hold onto it, cause it to blossom, and settle in it.’

Israeli soldiers cross the security fence moving toward the Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, on Dec. 15, 2024. Matias Delacroix/AP Photo

A respected war monitoring group says Israel has bombed missile warehouses near the Syrian port of Tartous and called them the “most violent strikes” since 2012.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), an independent network based in the UK, said in a Dec. 16 report on its website that “violent explosions were heard in Tartous due to consecutive strikes and explosions of ground-to-ground missiles from the warehouses.”