ISRAELI rockets pounded Syria’s Homs province today, killing one soldier and wounding three others as Tel Aviv continues to escalate hostilities in the region.

Missiles were said to have struck the historical city of Palmyra, which has been rebuilt since large parts of it were destroyed by Isis in what has ben described as an act of “cultural genocide.”

“A soldier of the Syrian Arab Army was martyred and three others were wounded as a result of an Israeli air raid on the Palmyra area in the eastern countryside of Homs,” a Syrian army statement said.