The Syrian Defense Ministry said that yesterday evening, Wednesday, Israel carried out an attack with several surface-to-surface missiles from the Golan Heights, targeting south of the capital, Damascus, which led to some material losses.
In turn, the Syrian official news agency “SANA” quoted a military source as saying that “the Israeli enemy carried out a strike with several surface-to-surface missiles from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in the vicinity of the town of Zakiya, south of Damascus.”
The agency stated that the strike led to “some material losses”, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Israeli bombing “targeted a military site belonging to the regime forces” near Damascus.
This is the second targeting of its kind in the vicinity of the Syrian capital during the current February, as a Syrian soldier was killed and 5 others wounded in an Israeli air and ground bombardment that targeted military sites in the vicinity of Damascus on the ninth of this month, and Israel said at the time that it was in response to a missile fired towards it from Syria.
Over the past years, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, targeting Syrian army sites, Iranian targets, and Lebanese Hezbollah targets.
Israel rarely confirms the implementation of these strikes in Syria, but it constantly reiterates that it will continue to confront what it describes as Iran’s attempts to consolidate its military presence in Syria.
