The Israeli military not often acknowledges its strikes in Syria (Representational)
Damascus:
Syria’s air defence system engaged “hostile targets” over the capital Damascus late Thursday, state information company SANA reported, with a army supply claiming they have been Israeli missiles.
“The Israeli enemy launched an aerial assault… focusing on positions close to Damascus and across the metropolis of Homs,” the army supply advised SANA.
“Our air defence responded to the missiles and shot most of them down,” it added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britain-based warfare monitor, mentioned that “Israeli missiles focused arms depots and army positions of” Lebanese Shiite motion Hezbollah, between Damascus and Homs.
Neither SANA nor the Observatory reported any injury or casualties.
Lebanese media additionally reported two missiles fell within the Qalamoun area bordering Lebanon.
The Israeli military not often acknowledges its strikes in Syria and a spokesperson advised AFP it did “not touch upon overseas media data”.
Nonetheless, because the begin of the warfare in Syria ten years in the past, Israel has carried out a whole bunch of air strikes on Syrian territory, focusing on regime positions in addition to allied Iranian forces and members of Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Israel commonly underlines that it’s going to not enable Syria to grow to be a stronghold of its sworn enemy Iran.
The Syrian battle, which started in 2011 with the regime’s repression of pro-democracy protests, has grown more and more advanced over the previous decade, drawing in increasingly events.
In accordance with the Observatory, the warfare has left practically half 1,000,000 folks useless.
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