This article was originally published by Cassie B. at Natural News.
Israeli missiles targeted a Syrian port city that hosts the Russian navy last night, according to reports from the Syrian Army.
Al Mayadeen reports that Syrian air defenses intercepted at least two inbound Israeli missiles over Tartous, and multiple explosions were reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The coastal city is situated north of Lebanon and is rarely the subject of Israeli attacks, and one big reason Israel typically avoids targeting it is the fact that Russia has assets and bases in the city and its surroundings. Tartous is also home to the only deep-water port in the Mediterranean for the Russian Navy.
The IDF has not commented on the situation, but they rarely issue comments about strikes in Syria. The country is believed to be a major thoroughfare for the passage of Iranian arms to Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon.
Israel recently attacked Syrian military sites
Earlier this month, Israel launched deadly attacks on a number of Syrian military sites, causing at least 16 fatalities. Israeli special forces targeted a top-secret Hezbollah missile production facility in the northwestern part of the country in a commando raid that saw the facility hit with air strikes before being stormed by ground forces, who made their way in by rappelling down from helicopters to seize evidence.
The dramatic raids saw them getting inside the facility’s reinforced inner rooms buried deep beneath the ground in the side of a mountain, making it impossible to target them with air strikes alone.
It is believed that the initial round of Israeli airstrikes preceding the commando raid destroyed at least four Syrian military positions, which include an air defense site, while a follow-up round of strikes hit a building connected to a maze of underground tunnels. The site
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