"Israeli warplanes launched over 100 strikes in Syria today, including on the Barzah scientific research centre," Rami Abdel Rahman who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.
He also reported "increased Israeli strikes to destroy the former regime's military capabilities".
Abdel Rahman said the targets of Israeli strikes included weapons depots in the eastern Deir Ezzor province and near the Qamishli military airport in the country's northeast.
Raids also destroyed boats from the former Syrian navy in the sea port of Latakia, he said.
Israel, which borders Syria, has sent troops into a buffer zone on the east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights after Assad's fall, in what Foreign Minister Gideon Saar described as a "limited and temporary step" for "security reasons".
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on West Bank
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Dec 9, 2024 -
An Israeli air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas killed two Palestinians on Monday, according to the Palestinian health ministry, while the Israeli army confirmed it hit "armed individuals".
In a statement, the Palestinian health ministry said that two men aged 26 and 32 were killed "by Israeli shelling in Tubas", in the northern West Bank.
The Israeli military said one of its aircraft struck and killed "several armed individuals" during an operation in the city.
It said the operation aimed "to apprehend a wanted suspect and to thwart terrorist infrastructure sites", and that it had confiscated several weapons in a post-strike raid on the targeted area.
The strike came a week after the Palestinian health ministry said the Israeli army besieged the Tubas hospital, before breaking into it, shooting inside, "assaulting staff and patients and arresting a number of them".
The army said its soldiers were deployed around the hospital to collect the bodies of militants struck earlier, but that "they did not enter the hospital."
An AFP journalist on the scene saw Israeli soldiers exiting the hospital and detaining staff, some of them wearing scrubs or doctor's coats, before loading them into armoured vehicles.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since the war in Gaza erupted on October 7 last year after Hamas's attack on Israel.
Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 790 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to the Ramallah-based health ministry.
Palestinian attacks on Israelis have also killed at least 24 people in the West Bank in the same period, according to Israeli official figures.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967.
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