A Syrian soldier was wounded in an airstrike attributed to Israel near Damascus late Monday night, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported.

“At around 23:05 (…) the Israeli enemy launched an attack with rockets fired from the occupied Syrian Golan against targets on the outskirts of Damascus, injuring a soldier and causing material damage,” said a source close to the Syrian armed forces in SANA.

Earlier, the agency reported that Syrian air defenses “intercepted enemy targets on the outskirts of Damascus,” without elaborating.

For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that “Israeli rockets were fired against at least three regime facilities, which included warehouses and military positions of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and pro-Iranian paramilitaries.”

Two of those positions were in Kiswe district, near Damascus, the third south of the capital, according to the NGO, which is based in Britain and relies on a wide network of sources in the war-torn country.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has not reported any casualties, at least at this stage.

In mid-August, powerful explosions were reported during a nighttime raid on missile depots of pro-Iranian militias near Damascus, causing material damage, the group said.

A week earlier, on August 7, still in the vicinity of the Syrian capital, Israeli strikes against military positions and weapons depots, and then near Kiswe, killed four Syrian soldiers and two fighters from pro-Iranian paramilitary groups, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Rights.

Since the outbreak of the 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 the Iranian military 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.