2024-02-10T04:38:56+00:00
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/ The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) announced, at dawn on Saturday, that it had repelled an Israeli air attack that targeted sites in the Damascus countryside.
The agency quoted a military source as saying: “At around 1:05 a.m. today, the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of points in the Damascus countryside.”
The source added: “Our air defense systems confronted the aggression’s missiles and shot down some of them.”
The source concluded by saying: “The aggression resulted in some material losses.”
Social media users circulated videos and photos that they said were of the Israeli attack that took place at dawn today.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the sound of violent explosions resulting from Israeli raids in the areas of Al-Dimas and the Dummar Project, where the raids targeted a residential building west of the Syrian capital, amid information about the assassination of figures of non-Syrian nationalities.
Yesterday, Friday, official Syrian media announced that air defenses had intercepted “hostile targets” around Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also confirmed the news, saying that “explosions were heard in and around the Syrian capital.”
Over the past years, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, mainly targeting Iranian and Hezbollah targets, including warehouses and shipments of weapons and ammunition, as well as Syrian army sites. However, these strikes intensified after the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip.