On Friday, May 30, Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on military positions in the countryside of Tartus and Latakia provinces in western Syria, according to a military source cited by +963.
The source reported that the strikes targeted the “107th Brigade” near the city of Jableh, as well as the “Shamiya Barracks” in Latakia Governorate.
Another strike reportedly hit a military site in the northern countryside of Tartus Governorate.
The source did not confirm whether there were any injuries or fatalities as a result of the attacks on the three military locations.
Channel 12 later quoted an Israeli army statement confirming the strikes, stating that a military site in Syria had been targeted. The statement specified that the strikes were aimed at strategic weapons depots in Latakia’s countryside.
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Earlier in the day, a separate incident occurred near the Mantara Dam in central Quneitra countryside, in southwestern Syria. According to a +963 correspondent, a group of young Syrian men expelled an Israeli patrol from the area.
The correspondent reported that four Israeli military vehicles entered the vicinity of the dam, where dozens of families from Daraa, Quneitra, and Damascus governorates were gathered for a day out.
Yassin al-Hamad, mayor of the nearby village of Umm al-Azm, said the patrol had originated from an Israeli military base adjacent to the village and approached the dam, prompting anger among local residents.
Al-Hamad told +963 that the young men responded by throwing stones at the patrol and chasing it on motorcycles until it withdrew from the area.
He added that one of the youths managed to remove an Israeli flag from one of the vehicles and tore it up, amid chants of protest from the crowd near the dam.
Israeli forces had previously warned both residents and visitors to avoid the area around the Mantara Dam, declaring it a “closed military zone,” according to the +963 correspondent.
