Israeli airstrike kills, injures government soldiers in Damascus
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Three Syrian government soldiers were killed and seven were injured Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Syria’s capital, Damascus.
State-run news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying, “At about 12:32 a.m. on Friday, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial act of aggression with bursts of missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, some sites in the vicinity of Damascus.”
“Syrian air defenses intercepted the missiles and downed some of them,” the source said.
In addition, media outlets reported that the Israeli bombing targeted the Air Force Intelligence offices at the Mezzeh Military Airport vicinity, and a weapons depot for Iranian forces in the vicinity of Sayyidah Zaynab area.
On July 2, Israel targeted sites south of the Syrian coastal governorate of Tartus, wounding two civilians.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria over the past few years targeting what it says Iranian-backed militia’s strongholds.