Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is the army correspondent for The Times of Israel.
An unidentified aircraft hit a convoy of Iranian trucks at the al-Qaim crossing on the Syrian-Iraqi border, where common Iranian army activities were reported, delayed Syrian and Arab media reported on Sunday.
The Saudi-funded al-Arabiya network, citing unnamed sources, said 25 trucks had crossed the Iraq-Syria border before the attack. According to Syrian radio station Sham FM and local media, six refrigerated trucks were hit.
Al-Arabiya said the unidentified plane first fired a cautionary shot to allow the truckers to leave before bombing them. The network said the al-Qaim crossing is controlled, speaking, by Iranian militias.
Europe-based Syrian Omar Abu Layla, whose news firm DeirEzzor24 maintains investigators in Syria, reported that the trucks belonged to Iranian militias and that the movements were also aimed at an assembly of Iranian commanders in the Abu Kamal area.
Unverified photographs circulating online purported to show a giant burning fireplace in the area.
Iran is believed to deliver weapons to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah from Iraq and Syria.
There were no immediate reports of injuries in Sunday’s strike.
— جاده إيران Jadeh Iran (@jadehiran) January 29, 2023
The Israeli military says it is also attacking arms shipments purportedly destined for those groups, chief among which is Lebanon’s Hezbollah. In addition, airstrikes attributed to Israel have targeted Syrian air defense systems.
In a rare comment in December, then-IDF leader Aviv Kohavi showed that an airstrike in early November against a convoy carrying Iranian weapons on the Syrian-Iraqi border had been carried out through the Israeli Air Force.
Kohavi said Israeli intelligence discovered which truck in the 25-vehicle convoy carrying weapons from Iran to Lebanon, and that “advanced capabilities” allowed pilots to conduct a precision strike.
The attack reportedly killed 10 people, an unknown number of Iranians.
Israeli movements have continued in Syrian airspace, which is largely controlled by Russia, even as ties with Moscow have frayed over the past year. Israel found itself at odds with Russia as it increasingly supported Ukraine as it sought freedom of movement in the skies. on Syria.
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