Four Israeli Air Force F-16 tactical fighters struck a phosphate processing plant near Palmyra on October 13. The Syrian military did not use air defenses in the attack because of two civilian planes in the sky. Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for the reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, announced this.
According to him, on October 13 from 23:35 to 23:39, four tactical F-16 fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force entered Syrian airspace near the US-occupied Al-Tanf zone in Homs province and hit a phosphate ore processing plant near Palmyra, a communication tower was also destroyed.
"The Israeli airstrike killed one Syrian soldier and wounded three others. The plant sustained material damage. The Syrian military leadership decided not to use air defenses because at the time of the Israeli air attack, two civilian passenger aircraft on the Dubai-Beirut and Baghdad-Damascus routes were in the anti-aircraft strike zone," Kulit said.
He added that ten shellings from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (banned in the Russian Federation) were recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone over the past 24 hours. In Idlib province, three Syrian army soldiers were wounded when a quadcopter launched by terrorists from the area of Qalaz-Fawkani village dropped a grenade on the positions of government forces near the settlement of Mortlu.
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Based on materials from TASS