Syrian state television said that early on Friday, Israeli airstrikes near Damascus resulted in “material damage” to targets.
SANA said, quoting a military source, “At about 2:25 a.m., the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of points in the surroundings of Damascus.”
The source said that the majority of the Israeli missiles were shot down by Syrian air defenses, although it did not specify which targets were hit.
Syria’s claimed capacity to resist Israeli attacks has been questioned by military specialists on many occasions.
The Iranian-backed terror organization Hezbollah was targeted by Friday’s attacks, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, located in Britain.
In reaction to rockets fired at the Israeli Golan Heights a few hours earlier, Israeli Air Force aircraft attacked terrorist facilities in Syria last Saturday.
Two days before, the IDF attacked assets in Syria that belonged to the organization that launched the drone that targeted the Eilat school.
“All acts of terrorism emanating from Syrian territory are entirely the responsibility of the Syrian regime.” A military statement from last week said that “the IDF will respond severely to any attempt to attack the territory of the State of Israel.”
In retaliation for previous strikes on US soldiers, the US targeted two Iranian-linked locations in Syria on Sunday.
The U.S. military has attacked sites in Syria it said were connected to Iran for the third time in less than three weeks. Iran’s terror proxies have injured several American soldiers in a string of strikes across the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on October 7.
The United States “does not seek conflict and has no intention nor desire to engage in further hostilities, but these Iranian-backed attacks against U.S. forces are unacceptable and must stop,” as emphasized by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in late October.
“Iran wants to hide its hand and deny its role in these attacks against our forces,” he said. We won’t allow them to. We won’t think twice to take more required steps to safeguard our people if assaults by Iran’s proxies against American soldiers persist.
