From Vanessa Bealey. Once again, no doubt (I’ll confess to not looking) you’ll not find this on the BBC.
In the early hours of the morning of the 19th February Israel attacked Syria and the capital city Damascus. Syrian Air Defence missiles were reported to be repelling Israeli warplanes over Palestine and the occupied Golan territories.
Loud explosions shook Damascus and the Golan. One missile struck a residential area in central Damascus. Reports range from five to fifteen deaths and multiple injuries including to children. The majority of casualties are civilians. Less than ten days after the earthquake struck in Syria the population is again under attack. A friend told me they had left Lattakia close to the epicenter of the quake and had come to Damascus “for peace”. That peace was replaced by terror for them and many others who had fled their destroyed homes for Damascus security