Israeli fighter jets carried out strikes against targets in the Syrian capital Damascus shortly before midnight on Monday, wounding one soldier, Syria’s state-run media reported.
The official 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 said air defenses had engaged the Israeli missiles. Syria regularly claims to intercept Israeli projectiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions.
Large explosions were heard over the capital during the alleged strikes, SANA reported.
The state-run media outlet said that "material damage" was caused to the sites that were targeted, and one soldier was maimed.
In recent years, numerous Syrian soldiers serving in air defense units have been killed or maimed in
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While Israel’s military does not, as a rule, comment on specific strikes in Syria, it has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country, over the last decade.
The Israeli military says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...’s Hezbollah. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.
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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that the missiles targeted positions “a few kilometers away” from the Damascus international airport, adding that they are yet to confirm the identity of the casualties.
Positions and warehouses of Iran-backed militias and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group were also reportedly targeted.
Syrian state media (SANA) announced that at least one regime soldier was wounded due to the strike, which also resulted in material damage.
Tuesday’s strike marks the 23th Israeli attack on Syria since the start of the year, resulting in at least 61 killed and over 60 others wounded, according to SOHR data.
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