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Damascus (AFP)
On Tuesday, Syrian air defenses launched several Israeli missiles into the sky over Damascus, according to the official Syrian news agency “SANA”.
The agency quoted a military source as saying: “At exactly 10:35 pm today, the Israeli enemy carried out an attack from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan against some targets in the vicinity of Damascus.”
He added: “Our means of air defense intercepted the missiles of the aggression and launched most of them, and the losses were limited to materials.”
Agence France-Presse correspondents reported hearing explosions in Damascus, which official media said were caused by air defenses that faced Israeli bombardment.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the Israeli airstrikes “were targeting two Iranian militia weapons depots within the military sites of regime forces a few kilometers from Damascus international airport.”
Since the outbreak of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Israel has regularly launched raids in Syria, often targeting Iranian or Lebanese Hezbollah sites or Syrian forces.
Israel rarely confirms the implementation of attacks in Syria, but the Israeli military stated in its annual report that in 2020 it bombed some 50 targets in Syria, without providing details.
And in late February, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israel directed attacks against “the area around Sayeda Zainab, south of the capital Damascus,” in which Iranian fighters and the Lebanese Hezbollah are present.
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