A number of people were killed and others were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted, early Wednesday morning, several locations in the city of Homs and its countryside in central Syria. The official Syrian SANA agency reported, citing a statement by the Syrian Ministry of Defence, that “the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction north of Tripoli (in northern Lebanon)” A Syrian military intelligence source familiar with the matter told Reuters that the Israeli bombing also targeted the Shayrat air base and several Syrian army positions on the outskirts of Homs.