“On October 13 ... four Israeli Air Force F-16 tactical fighters entered Syrian airspace in the US-occupied Al Tanf zone in Homs province and struck a phosphate processing plant in the Palmyra region.

A communications tower was also destroyed, ”the message says.

As a result of the attack, one Syrian soldier was killed, three more were injured, and the plant suffered material damage.

"The Syrian military leadership decided not to use air defense systems, because at the time of the Israeli attack, there were two civilian passenger aircraft in the zone of destruction of anti-aircraft systems, following the Dubai-Beirut and Baghdad-Damascus routes," added the CPVS spokesman.

Earlier, Kulit stated that the Syrian air defense system, using the Pantsir complexes, destroyed eight of the 12 missiles fired by Israeli F-16s at Syria.