The Israeli army announced today that it has targeted Syrian air defence batteries, after firing a surface-to-air missile in the direction of Israel during what Syrian state media reported was a series of Israeli missile strikes around the Syrian capital, Damascus.
An Israeli army spokesman refrained from making any comment on the initial attack in the Damascus area, which Syrian media said resulted in one soldier being killed and five others wounded. However, the Israeli military confirmed that it carried out a retaliatory strike after the launch of an anti-aircraft missile, which resulted in the activation of air defense sirens in parts of Israel and the occupied West Bank. The missile exploded in mid-air.
Following the anti-aircraft missile launch earlier, we attacked surface-to-air and radar missile batteries that opened fire on Israeli Air Force aircraft, he said via Twitter. Earlier, Syrian state television reported that air defense batteries shot down several Israeli missiles over Damascus.
Israel fired surface-to-surface missiles from the occupied Golan Heights,[/B] most of which were intercepted and shot down, according to the same source. In addition, there was another Israeli attack with missiles fired from an area southeast of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, according to Syrian state television.
Since the war in Syria broke out in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of strikes, almost all from the air, against positions of the Syrian government's armed forces and their allies, Iranian and pro-Iranian armed organizations, notably Lebanon's Shiite armed faction Hezbollah.
The Israeli authorities regularly signal that they will not allow Iran, a sworn enemy of the Jewish state, to set up a beachhead on Syrian territory. The war in Syria has claimed the lives of more than half a million people, caused massive damage to infrastructure, and uprooted millions of civilians, who have become internally displaced persons and refugees.
Source: KYPE
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