“Our air defense intercepted a missile strike by the Israeli enemy near Damascus,” the official SANA news agency reported.
Syrian authorities announced on Monday that anti-aircraft defense intercepted Israeli missiles in the Damascus suburbs.
“Our air defense intercepted a missile strike by the Israeli enemy near Damascus,” the official SANA news agency reported.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a non-governmental organization based in Britain, the target was an area near the Damascus airport, where fighters from Iranian-backed organizations, especially the Shiite militia group Hezbollah of Lebanon, are present.
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, especially Hezbollah.
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.
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