State media say the missile assault brought on some materials injury south of the capital.
Syria’s state media say an Israeli missile assault has killed two civilians and left materials injury on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.
Israel carried out the assault at about 5am (03:00 GMT) on Monday, hitting positions south of Damascus, Syria’s official SANA information company mentioned, citing a navy supply.
“[The] air defence techniques intercepted the missiles, downing most of them,” SANA mentioned.
“Two civilians had been killed and a few materials injury was incurred,” it added, with out specifying how the deaths occurred.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a monitoring group, mentioned the missiles hit “a weapons and ammunition depot operated by Iran-backed militias close to the Damascus Worldwide Airport”.
The group, which depends on an in depth community of sources inside Syria, mentioned it couldn’t verify civilian deaths.
In response to SOHR, Israel has carried out raids in Syria not less than seven occasions for the reason that begin of the 12 months.
Final month, Israeli raids close to Damascus killed two Syrian troopers and 4 Iran-backed militia fighters, the warfare monitor mentioned.
Since warfare broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out lots of of air assaults contained in the nation, focusing on authorities positions in addition to allied Iran-backed forces and fighters of the Shia group Hezbollah.
Israel hardly ever acknowledges such operations. It didn’t touch upon the most recent assault. It has nonetheless acknowledged that it targets bases of Iran-allied militias, resembling Hezbollah, that combat on the facet of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.