Tue 28 December 2021:
According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, Israeli warplanes attacked the Syrian port of Latakia early Tuesday, the second such attack this month.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression at dawn today, with missiles from the direction of Mediterranean, west of the city of Latakia, targeting the container yard in the commercial port in Latakia,” SANA said, citing a military source.
Live footage aired by state television showed flames and smoke in the container terminal. Later on Tuesday, the Syrian government’s media office said emergency services brought under control fires that had broken out in the port’s container storage area.
It said the attack caused “significant material damage”.
The agency said the Israeli attack targeted “oils and spare parts for machinery and cars”.
A hospital and a number of buildings sustained damage in the attack, SANA said, without giving any reports of casualties.
There was no comment from the Israeli military on the report.
A reporter for the state-run Al-Ikhbariyah TV in the area said the explosions could be heard in Tartus, another coastal city more than 80km (nearly 50 miles) south.
Asked about the raid, an Israeli army spokesman said: “We don’t comment on reports in foreign media.”
Latakia is Syria’s main commercial port.
Russia, which has been President Bashar al-Assad’s most powerful ally during the war, alongside Iran, operates an airbase at Hmeimim, some 20km (12 miles) south of the city.
In the last four years, regime-controlled areas in Syria have come under frequent Israeli attacks targeting sites and military bases used by regime forces and Iran-backed militias.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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