Overview

• On May 30, Israeli jets bombed three sites in western Syria’s Latakia and Tartous regions, targeting coastal missile storage and surface-to-air components.
• Syrian state media said one civilian was killed and three others wounded when a depot near the village of Zama in the Jableh countryside was hit.
• The Israeli military described the raids as necessary to neutralize missile threats to international maritime freedom of navigation and to preserve its freedom of action.
• Indirect talks held earlier in May aimed to defuse hostilities, and the strike occurred as US envoy Thomas Barrack was urging a formal non-aggression pact.
• The strike underscores a technical state of war since 1948 and deepens long-running tensions over Iranian-backed militias and Israel’s 1967 Golan Heights capture.