The conflict in Syria has killed nearly half a million people since the war started in 2011. (Representative)
Damascus:
Syrian air defenses intercepted Israeli missiles south of Damascus on Monday with no casualties, a military source told the official SANA news agency.
“The Israeli enemy launched an airstrike from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting points south of Damascus,” with Syrian air defenses intercepting most of the missiles, SANA quoted the military source as saying.
“The losses were limited to material damage.”
An AFP correspondent in the capital Damascus heard loud noises in the evening.
The airstrike targeted sites in southern Damascus, where the Lebanese Hezbollah group and Syrian air defense units are operating, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war observer said.
Last month, Israeli surface-to-surface missiles killed at least three Syrian officers near Damascus, according to the Observatory — which has a wide network of sources in Syria.
The Israeli attacks targeted Iranian positions and weapons depots near Damascus, the observer said at the time.
Since the civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against its neighboring country, targeting government forces as well as allied Iranian-backed forces and fighters from the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah.
While Israel rarely comments on individual attacks, it has acknowledged that it has carried out hundreds.
The Israeli army has defended them as necessary to prevent their nemesis Iran from gaining a foothold.
The conflict in Syria has killed nearly half a million people and displaced about half of the country’s pre-war population from their homes.
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