The Syrian regime’s news agency, SANA, reported that air defenses intercepted, late Monday, Israeli missiles in the south Damascus Without reporting any injuries.
“SANA” quoted the military source as saying that Israel carried out air strikes from “the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points south of the city of Damascus.” The Syrian Agency indicated that the losses were limited to material.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that “violent explosions resounded in the southern part of Damascus countryside, as a result of Israeli air strikes.”
He added that the bombing targeted “military sites In the Kiswa area, where the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and air defense batteries belonging to the Syrian regime are deployed.
The observatory confirmed, “The sites were targeted by regarding 10 Israeli missiles, while the air defenses responded to at least 7 missiles, and a missile landed in the town of Aqraba, causing material damage, without information regarding casualties so far.”
And last month, Israeli surface-to-surface missile attacks killed at least three Syrian officers near Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria.
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The observatory added that the Israeli strikes targeted Iranian sites and weapons depots near Damascus.
Syria has been witnessing a bloody conflict since 2011, which has killed regarding half a million people, caused massive damage to infrastructure, and led to the displacement of millions of people inside and outside the country.
During the past years, Israel launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, targeting Syrian army sites, Iranian targets, and Lebanese Hezbollah targets.
Israel rarely confirms carrying out strikes in Syria, but it reiterates that it will continue to confront what it describes as Iran’s attempts to entrench its military presence in Syria.
The Israeli military justifies these attacks as necessary to prevent Iran from gaining a foothold on Israel’s borders.
Tehran confirms the presence of elements of its armed forces in Syria on advisory missions.
Diplomatic efforts have not led to a political settlement of the conflict in Syria, despite several rounds of negotiations held since 2014 between representatives of the government and the opposition under the auspices of the United Nations in Geneva.
