Two Syrian soldiers were wounded last Sunday night in Israeli strikes against targets near Damascus, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced.

“At around 10:05 p.m. (local time; 9:05 p.m. Greek time), the Israeli enemy launched an air strike from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting various locations near the capital Damascus,” the ministry said in a broadcast statement. by the Syrian official news agency SANA.

“The attack wounded two soldiers and caused material damage,” he added, noting that anti-aircraft defense systems intercepted some of the Israeli missiles.

An AFP correspondent on the outskirts of Damascus reported hearing shelling.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an NGO with a wide network of sources in Syria, the Israeli air force struck “centers of the regime’s air defenses, as well as positions of fighters linked to Hezbollah near Sayeda Zainab,” south of Damascus.

Ambulances were sent to the area after the strikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights added.

Israel has launched hundreds of strikes in neighboring Syria, almost all of them from the air, since the country’s civil war broke out in 2011, targeting positions of the Syrian army and organizations linked to Iran, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in particular.

Its raids have multiplied since October 7, when war broke out between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, triggered by a bloody offensive by its military arm, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, against southern sectors of Israeli territory.

Hezbollah, an ally of the regime in Damascus, Iran as well as Hamas, has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks in northern Israel from southern Lebanon since October 8.