Syria’s state news agency, SANA, said Israeli Air Force warplanes launched their missiles from over the Golan Heights, targeting a number of sites in and around Damascus.
SANA, citing a military source, said Syrian air defenses responded to the Israeli incursion, downing "most" of the missiles. Syria regularly claims to intercept Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions.
The state-run media outlet said that "material damage" was caused to the sites that were targeted, and two soldiers were maimed.
Images circulating online showed flames and smoke rising from several sites in the capital.
There was no immediate comment from Israeli authorities.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked war monitor, said the strikes marked the 20th time Israel has struck targets in Syria this year.
The observatory said the strikes had hit military sites and warehouses of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an ally of the Syrian government, causing a fire to break out.
The conditions of the two soldiers were not immediately clear. In recent years, numerous Syrian soldiers serving in air defense units have been killed in Israeli
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The last reported Israeli strike in Syria occurred on July 6, when IAF jets allegedly struck targets near Damascus.