Syria – live: Israel ‘fires missiles at more than 100 Syrian military sites’ as Damascus prison searched
Israel has carried out dozens of air strikes on military sites across Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based human rights organisation, has claimed.
The organisation said Israel targeted military sites in Damascus, Daraa, Latakia and Hama, including research centres, weapons, warehouses and airports.
The organisation reported that “raids were launched on scientific research in Barzeh”.
It comes as Israel told a United Nations security council meeting that the strikes in Syria would be “limited and temporary”.
Russia, one of the Assad regime’s key allies, is now scrambling to ensure the security of its own military bases in Syria, saying it is “premature” to discuss what the future holds.
Meanwhile, the Syrian White Helmets were investigating reports of prisoners trapped in hidden underground cells in the notorious Saydnaya. There is so far “no evidence confirming the presence of detainees other than those who were released yesterday [Sunday],” it said in an update on Monday afternoon.
