Two soldiers were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus on the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, SANA, the Syrian state news agency, reported.

According to the non-governmental organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, this is the 20th Israeli air strike in 2023.

“Around 00:25, the Israeli enemy conducted an air attack [εκτοξεύοντας] missile strikes from the northern part of occupied Syria [υψιπέδου] Golan, targeting some positions on the outskirts of Damascus,” SANA said a source in the Syrian army.

“The attack wounded two soldiers and caused material damage,” the source added, assuring that most of the Israeli missiles were intercepted by Syrian air defenses.

SANA broadcast visuals, photos and videos, which it said showed a missile being intercepted.

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strikes targeted positions near Damascus airport and the Beirut-Damascus highway, west of the capital, in Sabura, where members of the 4th division, an elite unit of the Syrian army, are stationed.

According to the same NGO, based on a wide network of sources in the war-torn country, the strikes targeted warehouses of the pro-Iranian armed movement Hezbollah of Lebanon and caused fires, however no casualties were reported.

Earlier this month, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israel launched a raid against Hezbollah facilities and ammunition depots in the northwestern district of Homs (center), killing an Iranian member of the Revolutionary Guards and injuring others. four people.

It also hit an air defense base in Qadmus, Tartus province, according to the same source.

Since the outbreak of war in Syria in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of strikes on Syrian territory, the vast majority of them from the air, against positions of the Syrian armed forces and their allies, especially Iranian forces and pro-Iranian armed groups, above all of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. He rarely officially confirms operations in the neighboring country as part of this undeclared war, but he often declares that he will not allow Iran, his sworn enemy, to build a bridgehead or extend its influence on his doorstep.