A Syrian army official said that Israeli missiles targeted facilities south of the capital Damascus, state media reported.
Syrian anti-aircraft defenses intercepted the Israeli missiles and shot down most of them, but at least one civilian was wounded and there was property damage, according to the officer.
This is the second Israeli attack in the Damascus area this week, after the one on Monday, which had no casualties, according to authorities.
On May 20, Israeli surface-to-surface missiles killed three Syrian officers near Damascus, according to the non-governmental organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Israeli missiles targeted Iranian bases and weapons depots near the Syrian capital, according to the same source.
On May 13, a similar strike killed 5 soldiers; on April 27, another strike
killed 10 people.[/B]
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 complex war in Syria over the past eleven years, involving foreign forces and jihadist organizations, has claimed the lives of at least half a million people, destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and turned millions into internally displaced persons and refugees.
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