Syria war monitor says Israel struck military targets on Syrian coast

This picture taken from northern Israel shows an Israeli Air Force fighter jet flying over the border area with south Lebanon on March 12, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. (AFP)

• “Israeli warplanes launched strikes” targeting a series of sites including air defense units and “surface-to-surface missile depots”

BEIRUT, Lebanon: A Syria war monitor said early Monday that Israeli strikes had targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartus region, calling them “the heaviest strikes” in the area in more than a decade.

“Israeli warplanes launched strikes” targeting a series of sites including air defense units and “surface-to-surface missile depots,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in what it said were “the heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012.”