Alleged Israeli bombardment targets Damascus outskirts
QAMISHLI (North Press) – On Monday, air raids (likely to be Israeli) targeted military posts in the vicinity of the Syrian capital of Damascus, with no casualties reported.
On Monday at dawn, the Syrian government official news agency SANA quoted a Syrian military source who stated that Israeli missiles targeted several posts in the vicinity of Damascus from the Golan region at about 1:00 a.m.
The source added,” air defenses intercepted Israeli aggression and shot down most of the missiles.”
The raids targeted the headquarters of the First Division in al-Kiswah city in the western countryside of Damascus, and an explosion was heard in the vicinity of Dummar and Dummar Project.
The Voice of the Capital website indicated that the targeting had affected an air defense base of the Syrian government forces stationed within the headquarters of the Fourth Division in the mountains around the village of Beja’a, west of Damascus.
Today’s targeting is the fifth of its kind that Israel has implemented since the beginning of 2021.
In mid-January the Israeli air force targeted military goals of the Syrian government forces in Deir ez-Zor and Al Bukamal, in the southeast countryside of the governorate.
During the war years in Syria, Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes on military sites of the Syrian government forces and other groups related to Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah.