Israeli warplanes carried out new air attacks near Syria’s capital Damascus wounding two Syrian soldiers Syrian state news agency reported on Wednesday.
“At about 12:25 a.m. the Israeli enemy launched an aerial aggression with bursts of missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights targeting some points in the vicinity of Damascus” the state news agency SANA reported.
Syrian air defenses confronted the missiles Israel launched at 12:25 a.m. from the Golan Heights and shot down most of them the source said.
SANA citing military sources said two Syrian soldiers were injured in the missile attack and there were &ldquosome material losses&rdquo.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights a war monitor based in the United Kingdom said the air attacks marked the 20th time Israel has struck targets in Syria so far this year.
The attacks targeted military positions near the airport in the town of Dimas as well as the Beirut-Damascus highway west of the capital where elite members of the Syrian army are stationed according to the monitor.
The observatory said the missiles hit warehouses of the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Israel has carried out hundreds of air attacks on government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years but it rarely acknowledges responsibility.
