10 Injured in Homs Explosion, Western Syria

Syrian news agency SANA reported on Friday that explosions were heard in the central city of Homs, western Syria, according to Sky News Arabia channel.

SANA quoted the governor of Homs, Talal Al-Barazi, as saying that the explosions occurred in an ammunition depot due to an unknown attack.

He explained that the explosions that targeted an ammunition depot did not cause human damage and were limited to material losses.

However, the health official in Homs told SANA that ten wounded persons arrived at the central hospitals for treatment after fragments of the bombs fell on their homes.

A few hours ago, the Syrian official media had reported that Israeli helicopters fired several missiles from the occupied Golan at targets in southern Syria, adding that the attack caused only material damage.

It is one of several attacks carried out by Israel this month that Western intelligence sources say have targeted armed groups backed by Iran and maintaining an increasing presence in Syria.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that an Israeli bombardment hit the sites of the Syrian government forces and Iranian militias near the administrative borders between the governorates of Daraa and Quneitra.

In the past few years, Israel has struck the bases and convoys of the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, which has a large presence in the Syrian-controlled part of the Golan.

Last Monday, Syria announced the death of three civilians and the wounding of four others, including a child, as a result of the fall of Israeli missile fragments on homes of citizens in the villages of al-Hujaira and al-Adliya in Damascus countryside.

SANA reported that "the air defense of the Syrian army responded at dawn to an Israeli aggression with rockets from over Lebanese territory towards Syrian territory and the overthrow of the majority.”

It quoted a military source as saying: "At 4:55 am, Israeli warplanes fired over a group of missiles over southern Lebanon.”

Israel has launched hundreds of raids on Syria since the war began there in 2011; most of them against Iranian and other targets of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which supports President Bashar al-Assad.

US President Donald Trump also recognized Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, where 18,000 Syrians and about 20,000 Jewish settlers live;he signed a declaration in this regard in March 2019.