Prensa Latina observed Israeli drones constantly flying over the skies of Damascus and then carried out attacks on military and heavy equipment at the Mezzeh air base, located on the southwestern outskirts of the capital.

Other bombardments targeted radar and air defense positions in the provinces of Sweida, Damascus, Homs, and Tartus, as well as the air bases of Dumeir, Thalei, Khejleh, and Shuyerat, where dozens of Syrian warplanes were destroyed.

Ater the overthrow of the government of Bashar Al-Assad those facilities had been abandoned by the Syrian army.

Israel took advantage of the situation and political events in the country to occupy with its military forces Mount Hermon, considered the highest peak in Syria with 1814 meters above sea level, in addition to a strip of territory that includes the buffer zone between the two nations.

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