DAMASCUS: An Israeli air strike on Tuesday killed two Syrian civilians, state media reported, the fourth such attack on government-held areas of the war-torn country in less than a week.
Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on Syria including army positions.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air strike” shortly after midnight, resulting “in the death of two civilians”, Syrian state news agency SANA reported, quoting a military source.
The attack came from the direction of “the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in the vicinity of Damascus and the southern region”, it said, adding Syria’s air defences intercepted most of the missiles.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor gave the same civilian death toll, director Rami Abdel Rahman added.
Israel fired “barrages of missiles targeting military areas and regime air defence,” said the Observatory.
An Israeli missile targeted a radar in the countryside of Sweida, while another hit a glass factory in the Al-Kiswah area of the Damascus countryside, killing the two civilians, it said.
The monitor had earlier said the missiles also targeted the vicinity of Damascus International Airport and an Iranian complex near the Sayyida Zeinab area, with Syria’s air defences intercepting at least two missiles. Syria’s foreign ministry condemned the strike.
“Syria warns Israel and its sponsors once again of the dangers of these aggressive policies which push the region towards total escalation and a new phase of insecurity and instability,” it said in a statement.
Thousands of Iranians on Tuesday attended a funeral procession in Tehran for two Revolutionary Guards killed in Israeli strikes in Syria last week.
In Friday’s aerial assault, Israeli missiles targeted positions near Damascus, Syrian state media had reported, a day after Israeli strikes near the capital wounded two Syrian soldiers, according to the defence ministry.
On Sunday, two fighters were killed in an Israeli air strike on targets in Syria, according to the Observatory, with SANA reporting five Syrian soldiers wounded in the assault near the western city of Homs. The same day, a rare car bombing rocked Damascus, with no deaths reported and no side claiming responsibility.
Meanwhile, two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a stabbing attack in central Israel on Tuesday and the suspected assailant arrested, police and medics said. A suspect was restrained by civilians and then arrested. — AFP
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