IRAN DENIES REPORTS THAT ISRAELI STRIKES ON SYRIA LED TO DEATHS

Thu 14 January 2021:

“The attacks left no human casualties,” Karimkhani told FARS on Thursday, in response to the claims made by media outlets that the Israeli airstrikes have killed and injured dozens of IRGC members and Fatemyoun and Hezbollah resistance forces.

Syria’s state news agency SANA said Wednesday that the “Israeli enemy carried out an aerial assault on the town of Deir Ezzor and the Albu Kamal region,” without giving further details.

A Britain-based war monitoring group said the air strikes killed 57 people, including Iran-backed fighters.

The “attacks that (Israeli forces) carry out under different pretexts are blind and with no strategic goals”, Karimkhani said.

He vowed that attacks on “resistance axis positions in Syria will certainly face a serious and severe response”.

The overnight raids targeted arms depots and military positions and were the deadliest such strikes since the start of the Syrian conflict, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The conflict has killed more than 387,000 people and displaced more than half of Syria’s pre-war population.