At least 42 soldiers of the Syrian government forces and members of Hezbollah have been killed this Friday in a series of bombings perpetrated by Israel against several positions in the province of Aleppo, in the north of Syriaas reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

According to said organization, 36 Syrian soldiers and six Hezbollah fighters have died in the Israeli attacks, which targeted a missile warehouse of the Lebanese Shiite group near Aleppo international airport, as well as other facilities used by the allied formation in Damascus.

According to the Observatory – based in the United Kingdom but with a wide network of collaborators on the ground – this is the Israeli attack that leaves more dead on Syrian soil in the last three years.

For its part, a military source cited by the official Syrian news agency SANA has specified that the attack took place around 01:45 local time this Friday (22:45 GMT on Thursday), when “The Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack from Athriyasoutheast of Aleppo”, causing the death of an unspecified number of “civilians and military personnel”.

This attack comes a day after Israel attacked the outskirts of Damascus and injured at least two civilians, according to the Syrian Ministry of Defense, in an action that took place just 10 days after another perpetrated by Tel Aviv against Syrian territory. The Observatory then stated that the target were Hezbollah weapons warehouses, which Israel has been confronting on the Israeli-Lebanese border since last October and against whom it has been carrying out parallel attacks in Syrian territory.

Although they already occurred relatively frequently before, Israel has intensified its actions against Syria since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7 and often targets pro-Iran militias present in the country as allies of the Syrian Government. So far this year, the Jewish State has attacked Syrian territory 28 times, most of them by air, according to the Observatory.