Israeli drone strike kills five pro-government troops in Syria: monitor

Published July 29th, 2015 - 10:11 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian side of the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights killed five pro-regime forces on Wednesday, AFP reported.

“An Israeli plane hit a car inside the town of Hader, killing two men from Hezbollah, and three men from the pro-regime popular committees in the town," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP

Hader is a Druze village near the ceasefire line.

An Israeli army spokeswoman declined to comment on the incident.

In a similar report by by official Hezbollah television station Al-Manar earlier said “two members of Syria's National Defence Forces were killed when an Israeli drone targeted their car at the entrance of Hader, in Quneitra province,” AFP reported.

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