Damascus:
The Syrian Defense Ministry said on Friday that eight soldiers were injured in Israeli airstrikes near Damascus.
On Thursday evening, the Israeli enemy launched airstrikes from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a location near Damascus… wounding eight soldiers, the ministry said in a statement.
Israel rarely comments on individual attacks but has repeatedly said it will not allow its arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence in Syria.
The Israeli military has carried out hundreds of attacks in Syria since the civil war broke out in its northern neighbor in 2011, mainly targeting army positions and Iranian-backed fighters.
But the attacks increased after Israel's war with the Iran-backed Palestinian operative group Hamas in the Gaza Strip began on October 7.
On April 19, Israeli strikes targeted a Syrian army position in the south of the country, the Syrian government and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said, as US media reported that Israel had struck Iran.
On the night of April 13, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in an unprecedented attack that came in retaliation for a deadly attack — largely blamed on Israel — on Tehran's consulate in Damascus.
The war in Syria has killed more than half a million people and displaced millions more since the war broke out in March 2011 due to the suppression of anti-government protests.
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