The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that 10 pro-Syrian forces were killed in the Israeli strikes near Damascus and the countryside of Homs.
The Observatory said in a press statement today that one of the dead was a Syrian national and the rest were non-Syrian nationalities, adding that the number of those killed was expected to rise as dozens of wounded were injured, some of them in serious cases .
The witness said that six civilians, including three children and a citizen, were killed near the Sahnaya district in the Syrian capital Damascus, adding that it was not known until now if they had been killed by the Israeli bombardment.
"Israeli planes fired more than seven missiles at midnight on Sunday, and Syrian air defense systems were intercepted and a number of them were dropped in the southwest of Damascus," a field commander in the Syrian government forces told German news agency DPA on Sunday.
The commander pointed out that these aircraft targeted three military points in the province of Homs, the 84th Battalion of the Syrian Air Defense, and two locations in the areas of Fayrouza and Umm Haratin west of Homs, and that more than 10 wounded government forces, reached the hospitals of Homs.
