A Syrian soldier has been killed at dawn Thursday in an Israeli missile attack in southern Syria according to Syria’s state news agency (SANA).
“At around 12:50am the Israeli enemy carried out an air raid with several missiles in the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and targeted several positions in the south” a military source was quoted by SANA as saying.
The Syrian air defenses managed to “shoot down most of the missiles” said the source who specified that “the aggression caused the death of a soldier and material damage”.
Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011 Israel has staged hundreds of strikes on targets inside areas controlled by the government of president Bashar al-Assad but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
Earlier this month Syria’s military said Israeli fighter jets fired missiles on the port of Latakia damaging containers but without inflicting casualties.
