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Israel air raids on Syria kill 3, inure 5 Palestinian refugees

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 1:32 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 05 July 2016 1:33 PM ]

An Israeli F-15 I fighter jet launches anti-missile flares during an air show at the Hatzerim base in the occupied territories on June 30, 2016. ©AFP

The Israeli regime’s latest aerial assaults on Syria have hit a Palestinian refugee camp, leaving three Palestinians dead and five other wounded.

The casualties came in Tel Aviv’s Monday airstrikes on the Khan al-Shih refugee camp, situated near the Syrian capital city of Damascus, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency quoted the relief organization Jafra Foundation for Relief and Youth Development as saying on Tuesday.

Civilian houses as well as a center devoted to providing psychological support, recreation and hygiene awareness to children were also heavily damaged in the Israeli air raids, the organization added.

Palestinians residing in Khan al-Shih have been caught at the center of fighting between the Syrian government forces and foreign-backed terrorists. They also suffer from dire humanitarian conditions and need medical services.

Additionally on Monday, an Israeli military spokeswoman said that the regime forces launched strikes against two Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights in response to what she called stray fire coming from the Syrian side.

Tel Aviv, which is believed to be one of the key supporters of terrorist groups in Syria, has targeted the region several times in recent years.

Syria’s Quneitra is seen in the background as an out-of-commission Israeli tank parks on a hill in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on August 21, 2015. ©Reuters

Syria has been gripped by foreign-sponsored militancy since March 2011. Damascus says Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar are the main supporters of the militants fighting the government forces.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011. The UN has stopped its official casualty count in the Middle Eastern state, citing its inability to verify the figures it receives from various sources.

According to the latest UN figures, some 450,000 of the 560,000 refugees registered in Syria remain in the crisis-hit Arab country, with 280,000 of them internally displaced. About 95 percent of the Palestinian refugees in Syria are in need of humanitarian assistance.

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