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Image showing smoke and fire during an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus in November 2019
Syrian official media reported that Syrian air defenses responded to a series of Israeli missile strikes in the capital Damascus on Tuesday night.
The official Syrian news agency (SANA) quoted a military source as saying: “At exactly 10:35 pm today, the Israeli enemy carried out an aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan against some targets in the vicinity of Damascus. , where our air defenses intercepted the missiles of the aggression and dropped most of them. “
“Losses were limited to some equipment,” the Syrian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Twitter.
SANA added that Syrian air defenses are responding to an Israeli aggression in the southern region.
Al-Ekhbariya state television said the explosions heard in the vicinity of Damascus were the sounds of responding air defenses in the southern region.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the airstrikes “targeted two ammunition depots belonging to Iranian militias fighting alongside the Damascus government a few kilometers from the Damascus airport, south of the capital.”
An Israeli army spokeswoman declined to comment, saying: “We do not comment on foreign reports.”
The Observatory added that in late February, Israeli airstrikes targeted the Sayeda Zeinab area, south of Damascus, where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the Lebanese Hezbollah are located, but no injuries were reported.
Since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011, Israel has routinely carried out raids in Syria, mainly targeting Hezbollah agents and Syrian government forces.
Israel rarely confirms strikes in Syria, but the IDF said it bombed about 50 targets in the war-torn country last year, without providing details.
