The Israeli military conducted airstrikes in Damascus and its suburbs resulting in human and material damage Syrian state media reported on Tuesday night.
Syria’s official SANA news outlet said that the government’s air forces intercepted two Israeli missiles over the Kiswah area in Rif Dimashq.
Media reports said the strike targeted an Iranian base in Damascus.
“Nine fighters belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps or pro-Iranian Shiite militias have been killed” Rami Abd el-Rahman director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.
The strike came hours after the Israeli military called for opening bomb shelters in the Golan Heights.
Israel’s war minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly spoke to his American counterpart and briefed him on the escalation.
