DAMASCUS — Israel bombarded a Syrian town near the
armistice line on the Golan Heights with surface-to-surface missiles early
Wednesday, state media reported, without any immediate mention of casualties.
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It is the third time this month that Israel has hit targets
inside Syria as it keeps up a bombing campaign against pro-Iranian forces
supporting the Damascus government in Syria's more than decade-old civil war.
"The Israeli enemy carried out a strike with several
ground-to-ground missiles" fired from the Israeli-occupied sector of the
Golan Heights at around 12:30am against the town of Quneitra in the
UN-monitored buffer zone,” the official SANA news agency said, citing a
military source.
It said the strike had caused material damage but gave no
other details.
Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said there had been several explosions in Quneitra "following
Israeli strikes on military posts" near the armistice line.
Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has
carried out hundreds of air strikes in Syria.
Israel rarely comments on individual strikes but it has
vowed repeatedly to prevent its arch foe Iran from extending a footprint in
Syria.
On February 17, Israeli artillery in the occupied Golan
shelled the town of Zakiya, south of Damascus. On February 9, Israeli warplanes
and artillery hit Syrian anti-aircraft batteries in response to a missile fired
into Israel.
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