New Israeli airstrikes hit some sites at dawn Thursday in the vicinity of the Syrian capital Damascus marking the third such attack in a week Syrian state media said.
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) Israeli missiles were launched in the early hours of Thursday morning at sites near Damascus and that Syrian air defenses “confronted the missile aggression and downed most of them with no reported casualties.”
“At around 00:30 AM the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied Palestinian territories targeting several positions in the vicinity of Damascus” the Syrian defense ministry said in a statement.
The attack follows similar airstrikes last Friday and a daytime air attack on Monday which wounded a soldier according to the Syrian army.
The attack on Friday was the first such reported raid since September 17 when Syria’s defense ministry said missile strikes on Damascus International Airport and nearby military posts in the south of the capital killed five soldiers.
The Israeli occupation state which does not officially confirm its responsibility for such attacks has carried out dozens of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years.
