The Syrian state news agency said Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus area Friday triggering Syrian air defenses that shot down most of them.
“The results of the aggression so far were limited to a strike on one of the warehouses at Damascus airport” the SANA news agency cited a military source.
The attack took place at 11:15 p.m. local time SANA said adding that the fighter jets attacked from the Galilee in northern Israel.
It also quoted a transport ministry source as saying that the airport was running normally.
Syrian state media broadcast footage of what it said were the air defenses firing with bright lights seen shooting across the night sky. Explosions were heard in one of the videos.
Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV said the attack was broader than usual targeting areas ranging from the eastern Damascus suburb of Dmeir to Kiswa south of the capital all the way to the village of Dimas in the west near the Lebanon border.
For its part the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the airstrikes targeted an area near the airport while others hit the area of Kiswa which is home to positions and storage sites for Iranian and Hezbollah forces allied with Syria’s government.
There was no immediate word from Israel which rarely comments on such attacks. Israel is widely believed to have been behind a series of airstrikes in Syria that have mainly targeted Iranian and Hezbollah forces and military sites.
