Damascus:
Syria’s air defence method engaged “hostile targets” more than the capital Damascus late Thursday, state news agency SANA reported, with a military supply claiming they have been Israeli missiles.
“The Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack… targeting positions near Damascus and around the city of Homs,” the military supply told 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 war monitor, mentioned that “Israeli missiles targeted arms depots and military positions of” Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, among Damascus and Homs.
Neither SANA nor the Observatory reported any harm or casualties.
Lebanese media also reported two missiles fell in the Qalamoun area bordering Lebanon.
The Israeli army hardly ever acknowledges its strikes in Syria and a spokesperson told AFP it did “not comment on foreign media information”.
However, due to the fact the begin of the war in Syria ten years ago, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes on Syrian territory, targeting regime positions as effectively as allied Iranian forces and members of Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Israel often underlines that it will not let Syria to grow to be a stronghold of its sworn enemy Iran.
The Syrian conflict, which started in 2011 with the regime’s repression of pro-democracy protests, has grown increasingly complicated more than the previous decade, drawing in more and more parties.
According to the Observatory, the war has left practically half a million persons dead.
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