“Israeli warplanes launched strikes” targeting a series of sites including air defence units and “surface-to-surface missile depots”, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It called the raids “the heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012”.
In the village of Bmalkah in the hills above Tartus, an AFP journalist saw roads filled with shattered glass and shreds of roller doors.
Residents told AFP that explosions began shortly after midnight and continued until almost 6:00 am (0300 GMT).
Clean-up crews sawed at fallen trees that had blocked the road to the next community. They also swept up missile and shell parts, even as the valley echoed to more blasts as pockets of stockpiled munitions caught fire.
“Most of the people had already left their homes towards the city, now they have lost their houses,“ he added.
Broken parts of mortars, rockets and missile launch tubes littered the hillsides.
According to the Observatory, 473 Israeli strikes have targeted military sites in Syria since the rebel alliance toppled Assad on December 8.
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