Arrays of Syrian air defenses “intercepted” several of the missiles, according to the state news agency SANA.
The Syrian authorities announced that two soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in the Israeli attack on the Shairat military airport, near the city of Homs (west), last Sunday night.
Arrays of Syrian air defenses “intercepted” several of the missiles, according to the state news agency SANA.
The Israeli raid is believed to have targeted weapons depots belonging to pro-Iranian paramilitaries and caused widespread damage at the airport, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a non-governmental organization based in Britain and based on a wide network of sources in the war-torn country.
Israel’s military declined to comment on the information from Damascus.
Since the war in Syria broke out in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of strikes, the vast majority of them from the air, against positions of the armed forces of the Syrian government and their allies, Iranian and pro-Iranian armed groups, notably the Shiite militant group Hezbollah of Lebanon.
The Jewish state rarely confirms or publicly comments on the strikes it launches, but it often declares that it will not allow Iran, its sworn enemy, to build a bridgehead or expand its influence on Syrian territory.
In late October, a military airport in Damascus was bombed, killing four pro-Iranian fighters; in September, five Syrian military personnel were killed in a raid also near the capital. In June, another shut down the Syrian capital’s airport for two weeks.
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