DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Fires caused by a new Zionist aggression at Syria’s Latakia port on Tuesday had been extinguished, leaving material damage, but the status of any casualties was unclear, Syria’s state media reported.
Five explosions targeted the port city after an aggression by the Zionist regime hit the port’s container yard, sending fire trucks racing to the site, Syrian state TV said.
Syria’s state news agency Sana said the Zionist regime mounted an aerial aggression at 01:23 am, firing a number of missiles targeting the container storage area at the port and setting some on fire.
A source familiar with port operations said it was the first time the Zionist regime had attacked the facility on Syria’s Mediterranean coast.
The Mediterranean port of Latakia is the country’s main port, through which food and other crucial supplies flow into Syria, and is close to Russia’s main air base of Hmeimim.
The Zionist regime rarely comments on the air strikes it carries out in Syria.
Syria and the Zionist regime are technically at war, due to the latter’s 1967-present occupation of the Arab country’s Golan Heights.
Tel Aviv significantly scaled up its incursions against Syria in 2011, when the country found itself in the grip of rampant foreign-backed militant and terrorist violence.
The attacks have regularly targeted the defensive units and equipment that belong to the Syrian military and its allies.