Israeli strikes on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo early on Friday killed 38 people including five members of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, two security sources said, the deadliest attacks so far in an intensified Israeli campaign against Iran\u2019s allies in Syria.
\nIsrael has ramped up its airstrikes on both Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria since the Oct. 7 incursion by Iran-backed Palestinian faction Hamas into Israel.
\nTehran and its proxies have entrenched themselves across Syria, including around Aleppo and the capital Damascus.
\nIsrael has repeatedly struck international airports in both cities over the years to disrupt weapons flows to Iran\u2019s allies in the region, but strikes since Oct. 7 have been deadlier and prompted Iran to withdraw some of its top officers from Syria.
\nSyria\u2019s defence ministry said Israeli strikes hit several areas in the southeastern part of Aleppo province around 1:45 a.m. local time (2245 GMT on Thursday), killing a number of civilians and military personnel.
\nIt said the airstrikes coincided with drone attacks carried out from Idlib and western rural Aleppo that the ministry described as having been conducted by \u201cterrorist organisations\u201d against civilians in Aleppo and its surroundings.
\nThe Israeli military declined comment.
\nThree security sources told Reuters that five Hezbollah fighters were among the dead. One of them was a local field commander whose brother was killed in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon in November, one of the sources said.
\nIsrael and Hezbollah have been trading fire across Lebanon\u2019s southern border in parallel with the Gaza war. More than 270 Hezbollah fighters and 50 civilians \u2013 including medics, civilians and journalists, have been killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. About a dozen Israeli troops and half as many civilians have been killed in northern Israel.
\nIt marks the biggest escalation since the two heavily-armed foes fought a month-long war in 2006. A United Nations resolution put an end to that war, but diplomatic efforts have so far failed to bring an end to current cross-border shelling.
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