Syrian state TV claims military intercepted Israeli missiles above Damascus
Syria's state-owned television channel claimed that the nation's air defenses intercepted Israeli missiles above Damascus on Tuesday, downing most of them before they reached their targets.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Syria's state-owned television channel claimed that the nation's air defenses intercepted Israeli missiles above Damascus on Tuesday, downing most of them before they reached their targets.
“Our air defenses confronted hostile missiles launched by Israeli warplanes from above the Lebanese territories and downed most of them before reaching their targets,” a military source said on the channel, as quoted by Reuters.
The source also noted that an arms depot was hit and three soldiers were wounded in the attack but did not reveal what was thought to have been the prime target of the Israeli missiles.
“An IDF aerial defense system activated in response to an anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria,” the official Israeli army Twitter account later posted.
According to UK-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the Israeli missile salvo was launched from above Lebanon and targeted rural areas in western and southwestern Damascus.
“A number of missiles hit arms depots for Hezbollah or Iranian forces,” the observatory said.
Lebanese state-owned National News Agency also reported that Israeli jets performed raids above southern Lebanon.
Over the past seven years of war in Syria, Israel has said it is deeply alarmed by the growing influence of Iran in the country and Israeli warplanes have launched a number of air raids there, some of them striking positions held by Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
Editing by John J. Catherine