Over four dozen people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo and many others wounded.
A war monitor said the strikes killed 44, most of them Syrian troops.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said Israeli strikes hit missile depots for Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group in Aleppo’s southern suburb of Jibreen, near the Aleppo International Airport, and the nearby town of Safira, home to a sprawling military facility.
However, Syrian local media reported that several locals were also among those killed during the airstrikes by Israel.
There was no statement from Israeli officials on the strikes.
Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and once its commercial centre, has come under such attacks in the past that led to the closure of its international airport. Friday’s strike did not affect the airport.
The strikes have escalated over the past five months against the backdrop of the war in Gaza and ongoing clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces on the Lebanon-Israel border.
In neighbouring Lebanon, an Israeli drone strike hit a car near the southern port city of Tyre and killed a Hezbollah member, Lebanese state media reported.
Israel’s occupation army said the targeted man was Ali Naim, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile program.