dpa
Tel Aviv/Damascus
At least 12 people were injured after Israel carried out airstrikes on two military bases in central Syria, a war monitor said on Saturday.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said 12 people were wounded, with two of them in a serious condition, when Israeli airstrikes hit an airbase in Palmyra.
The monitor has been documenting violence in Syria since 2011.
Late on Friday, the Israeli military said on Telegram that it struck facilities at the Palmyra airbase and another base in Tiyas.
“The IDF will continue to act in order to remove any threat posed to the citizens of the State of Israel,” the military said.
The statements could not initially be independently verified.
Israel has significantly increased its military activities on Syrian territory since the fall of long-term ruler Bashar al-Assad in December.
