{"id":54249,"date":"2024-07-09T20:39:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T10:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54249"},"modified":"2024-07-09T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T10:39:34","slug":"syria-says-israeli-strike-hits-mediterranean-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54249","title":{"rendered":"Syria says Israeli strike hits Mediterranean coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Syrian defence ministry said an Israeli strike caused damage but no casualties near the Mediterranean coastal city of Baniyas on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At approximately 12:20 am (2120 GMT)&#8230; the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea&#8230; targeting a site near the city of Baniyas,&#8221; the defence ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third such attack in the Baniyas area this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<\/p>\n<p>The British-based war monitor said &#8220;two Israeli missiles targeted at least two buildings, one of which belonged to an air defence battalion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It said Iranian military advisers were based in the area, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the defence ministry said an Israeli air strike in Baniyas killed a girl and wounded 10 other civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes, mainly targeting army positions and Iran-backed fighters, including from Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Syrian defence ministry said an Israeli strike caused damage but no casualties near the Mediterranean coastal city of Baniyas on Tuesday. &#8220;At approximately 12:20 am (2120 GMT)&#8230; the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea&#8230; targeting a site near the city of Baniyas,&#8221; the defence ministry said. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1936],"class_list":["post-54249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-syria-says-israeli-strike-hits-mediterranean-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}