BEIRUT: Following a United Nations representative’s statement that the Israeli raids on the city of Palmyra this week were probably the bloodiest to date, a Syria war monitor reported on Friday that 92 pro-Iranian fighters had been killed.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the attack on Wednesday struck three locations in Palmyra, including a gathering of pro-Iranian organizations that included leaders from Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iraq’s Al-Nujaba militia.
The Observatory reported that there are now “92 dead: 61 Syrian pro-Iran fighters,” 11 of them were Hezbollah employees, “and 27 foreign nationals, mostly from Al-Nujaba, plus four from Hezbollah.”
Eighty-two people had been killed, according to the Britain-based war monitor, which is based on a network of sources within Syria. At the same time, the Syria defense ministry claimed on Wednesday. Israel rarely comments on individual strikes in Syria but has repeatedly said it will not allow Iran to expand its presence in the country.
The Israeli military has intensified its strikes on targets in Syria since almost a year of hostilities with Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon escalated into full-scale war in late September.
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