Syrian official media said on Monday evening that the air defenses had responded to a new Israeli attack in the sky of the capital, Damascus, while media and intelligence sources said that they were raids against forces backed by Iran.

State television said that the air defenses "are responding to an Israeli aggression from the area of ​​Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan," and direct filming showed explosions in the sky of the capital. While there was no immediate comment from Israel.

State television quoted a spokesman for the Syrian regime forces as saying that the army's air defenses had intercepted most of the rockets that targeted the southern suburbs of Damascus - areas previously targeted by Israel - before they reached their targets.

Official media said that the attacks wounded 7 soldiers, and caused material damage. On the other hand, residents of the capital said that they heard the explosions, and that they shook windows in several neighborhoods within the city.

Ammunition store

Reuters news agency quoted Syrian military defectors as saying that the strike targeted a large Iranian-run ammunition store in Jabal Al-Mana near the town of Al-Kiswa, where members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have been holed up for some time in a rugged area about 15 km south of central Damascus.

Two military defectors stated that other strikes targeted the towns of Al-Mulaqibiya and Zaki near the kiswa, where gunmen from the Lebanese Hezbollah group were deployed, along with pro-Iranian factions.

"At least 6 missiles targeted the sites of the regime and pro-Iranian militias south of the capital, Damascus," the French Press Agency quoted the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, as saying.

An official in the pro-Iranian regional coalition said the strikes did not cause Iranian or Hezbollah casualties.

Israel bombed areas south of Damascus at the end of last April, in which civilians, including a child, were killed and injured due to the fall of Israeli missile fragments on the homes of the people in the towns of Al-Hujaira and Al-Adliya in the southern countryside of Damascus. On June 23, Israeli warplanes bombed areas in Hama Governorate (central Syria), and sites of the Syrian regime and Iranian forces in Homs countryside, Deir Ezzor and Suwayda were bombed that night.

Western intelligence sources told Reuters that the Israeli strikes on Syria are part of a proxy war approved by Washington, and part of an anti-Iran policy that has undermined Tehran's vast military power, without causing a significant increase in combat operations.

Israel has approved several raids inside Syria since the war erupted there in 2011.

Israeli military officials have said in the past few months that Israel will intensify its campaign against Iran in Syria, as Tehran has expanded its presence there with the help of factions affiliated with it.