As a result of the Israeli air strike, one Syrian soldier was killed and three others were injured
MOSCOW, October 14. /tass/. The Syrian military did not use air defense when attacking four Israeli fighter jets because of two civilian aircraft in the sky. This was announced by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit.
According to him, on October 13, from 23:35 to 23.39, four F-16 tactical fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force entered Syrian airspace near the US-occupied Al-Tanf zone in Homs province and struck a phosphate ore processing plant near Palmyra, and a communications tower was also destroyed.
"As a result of the Israeli air strike, one Syrian soldier was killed and three others were injured. The plant has suffered material damage. The Syrian military leadership decided not to use air defense systems, because at the time of the attack by Israeli aircraft, two civilian passenger aircraft were in the zone of destruction of anti-aircraft complexes, following the routes Dubai-Beirut and Baghdad-Damascus," Kulit said.
He added that over the past day, 10 attacks were recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (banned in the Russian Federation). In Idlib province, as a result of dropping a grenade from a quadrocopter launched by terrorists from the area of the Kalaz-Faukani settlement to the positions of government forces in the area of the Mortlu settlement, three Syrian army soldiers were injured.
