DAMASCUS —
Syrian air defense intercepted Israeli missiles south of Damascus on Monday,
with no casualties reported, a military source told Syria’s official news
agency SANA.
اضافة اعلان
“The Israeli enemy
carried out an airstrike from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting points south
of
Damascus,” with Syria’s air defense intercepting most of the missiles, SANA
quoted the military source as saying.
“The losses were
limited to material damage.”
An AFP
correspondent in the capital Damascus heard loud noises in the evening.
The airstrike
targeted sites in the southern Damascus countryside where the Lebanese
Hezbollah group and Syrian air defense units are active, said the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
Last month, Israeli
surface-to-surface missiles killed at least three Syrian officers near
Damascus, according to the observatory — which has a wide network of sources
inside Syria.
The
Israeli strikes
had targeted Iranian positions and weapon depots near Damascus, the monitor
said at the time.
Since civil war
broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes
against its neighbor, targeting government troops as well as allied Iran-backed
forces and fighters of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
While Israel rarely
comments on individual strikes, it has acknowledged carrying out hundreds of
them.
The conflict in Syria has killed nearly half a million
people and forced around half of the country’s pre-war population from their
homes.
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