Israeli airstrike in Syria kills 42, including Hezbollah members, Syrian soldiers

A car is removed from the area where reported Israeli airstrikes targeted an apartment in a residential building in the Kafr Sousa district of the Syrian capital Damascus on February 21, 2024. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death toll from an Israeli air strike in northern Syria’s Aleppo province on Friday has now reached 42.

The strike targeted a Hezbollah weapons depot, resulting in the deaths of 36 Syrian soldiers along with six members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.