State-run media claims most missiles shot down during overnight attack, but admits one fatality and material damage to unspecified sites
Israeli planes bombed areas in southern Syria, killing one regime soldier and causing some damage, Syrian state news claimed early Thursday.
A Syrian military official said air strikes took place just before 1 a.m., with planes coming from the Golan Heights bombing areas in the south of the country, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported. It did not specify what was targeted.
It claimed most of the missiles were intercepted, but admitted that one soldier was killed and that the strikes caused material damage.
There was no immediate comment from Israel, which does not discuss individual air strikes in Syria as a matter of policy.
The alleged bombing was the first since a highly unusual strike on the port in Latakia last week, in which Israel was said to have targeted at Iranian weapons shipment.
Israel has staged hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. Many of the strikes in the past had targeted the main airport in the capital Damascus, through which Iran is also believed to transfer advanced arms to its proxies.
The strikes came days after the Washington Post reported that Israel bombed Syrian facilities twice since March 2020 to stop it from stockpiling chemical weapons.
As reported by The Times of Israel