BEIRUT: Syrian state media announced that Israeli airstrikes hit several locations in southern Syria on Sunday morning, wounding one soldier.
The state-run SANA news agency, citing unnamed military officials, announced that the air defence forces shot down some of the missiles that were fired from the occupied Golan Heights by the Zionist regime at around 12:42 a.m. local time. The airstrike caused “material losses” and wounded one soldier, the statement said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the rebel war, said the Israeli strike also targeted two military sites in the Qalamoun mountains northeast of Damascus, an area where the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group operates. One of the targets was a weapons shipment, the Observatory said.
The airstrike was Israel’s 24th inside Syria since early 2024, the Observatory said. As many as 43 fighters from various groups, including Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, and 9 civilians were killed.
There was no immediate statement from Israeli authorities about the attack. Israel often carries out strikes against Iran-linked targets in Syria, but rarely confirms them. These attacks have intensified in the past five months against the backdrop of the Gaza war and the ongoing clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces on the Lebanon-Israel border.
The Israeli military announced last week that it had carried out 4,500 airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in the past five months, most of them in Lebanon and some in Syria.
