Cairo:
Israel carried out air strikes on targets close to Damascus early on Friday, triggering Syrian air defences but causing no casualties, Syrian state media reported, the second such attack in just more than two weeks.
The Israeli military declined to comment on the report.
A Syrian military supply quoted by state media mentioned Syrian air defences shot down most of the Israeli missiles and only material harm was completed in the attack launched at 1:26 a.m. Syrian Television showed footage of the air defences becoming fired.
The Israeli army mentioned a surface-to-air missile launched from Syrian territory towards Israeli air space had exploded more than the Mediterranean Sea and residents in central Israel had positioned various fragments of the projectile on the ground.
Many residents of central Israel reported hearing a significant explosion at the time Syria reported the strike.
Blasts had been also heard in Lebanon, from whose air space the attack was launched, a Lebanese safety supply mentioned.
Israel has for various years been mounting attacks on what it has described as Iranian-linked targets in Syria, exactly where Tehran-backed forces which includes Lebanon’s Hezbollah have place down a presence considering that deploying to enable President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian conflict that erupted in 2011.
Syria’s foreign ministry referred to as on the U.N. secretary common and Security Council president to halt and condemn Israeli attacks on Syria. It mentioned in a letter to each that the most current attack continued “a series of violations and crimes by Israel” against Syria, state news agency SANA reported.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction southeast of Beirut, targeting some points in the vicinity of the city of Damascus,” the Syrian military supply was quoted as saying.
Syria last reported an Israeli air strike on Aug. 19, which it mentioned targeted places close to Damascus and Homs.
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