Israeli airstrikes targeted Syria’s capital city late Sunday the first such strikes in nearly a month Syrian state media reported.
Syrian air defenses responded to the air raids in the vicinity of Damascus and shot down some of the missiles state news agency SANA said. The attack caused only “material damage” it added.
The last Israeli aerial attack on Syria was on May 2. It targeted the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killing one Syrian soldier and putting the airport out of commission state media said at the time.
Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011 the Israeli occupation state has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against the Arab country.
