An AFP correspondent heard loud explosions in Damascus last night.
At least two Israeli rockets hit positions south of Damascus on Monday night, causing property damage but no casualties, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported.
“The Israeli enemy fired two blows from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights against targets south of Damascus, but the Syrian air defense intercepted most of the missiles,” a military source told AFP.
“We suffered only material damage,” he added.
An AFP correspondent heard loud explosions in Damascus last night.
On May 20, Israeli surface-to-surface missiles killed three Syrian officers near Damascus, according to the non-governmental organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
According to the same source, the Israeli missiles targeted Iranian bases and weapons depots near the Syrian capital.
On May 13, a similar strike killed five soldiers; on April 27, another killed 10 people.
Since the outbreak of war in Syria in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes, almost all from the air, against positions of the Syrian government’s armed forces and their allies, the Iranian and pro-Iranian armed groups, especially the Shiite militant group Xi.
The Jewish state rarely confirms or publicly comments on these blows, but often states that it will not allow Iran, its sworn enemy, to build a bridgehead or extend its influence over Syrian territory.
The complicated war in Syria over the past eleven years, in which foreign forces and jihadist organizations have been involved, has claimed the lives of at least half a million people, destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure and turned millions into internally displaced persons and refugees.
