Two people killed in Israeli air strike on Deraa in southern Syria

According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Deraa, killing at least two people and injuring 19 others, according to the Syrian state news agency.

The Israeli military said it was launching strikes on military installations that contained weapons and other property belonging to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday night, and that it was pursuing them.

According to an army statement, the Israeli army is “currently striking military targets in southern Syria, including command centers and military installations containing weapons and military vehicles belonging to the old Syrian regime,” adding that the “military assets” pose “a threat to the State of Israel.

The army stated that it would “operate against” southern Syria if there were any military threats.

Israel targeted a military location that al-Assad’s forces once used but which the new government’s army now uses, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The southern Deraa province, close to the Jordanian border, has also been targeted by Israel before. In the same area, it earlier this month targeted a number of Syrian military installations.

The Israeli military claimed at the time that the military installations, which included bases and radar systems, posed a risk that the strike was intended to “eliminate.”

Four Israeli airstrikes targeted Deraa on Monday night, according to a report from Damascus, according to Resul Serdar of Al Jazeera.

Israel has a plan to significantly reduce its military, especially its defense capacity, and now it is saying that it doesn’t want any military presence in the south of Syria, according to Serdar.

“This is a huge, huge challenge for the government in Damascus,” he continued, “because, practically speaking, they are not in control of the southern cities of Syria.”

Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes in Syria and sent troops to a Golan Heights buffer zone that was funded by the UN.