The Syrian regime said - yesterday, Wednesday - that its air defenses repelled an Israeli attack targeting the Palmyra area in the eastern countryside of Homs in the center of the country, which resulted in the death of a soldier and the injury of 3 others, in addition to material losses.

The official Syrian news agency "SANA" (SANA) quoted an unnamed military source as saying that "the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression this evening from the direction of the Al-Tanf area towards (Palmyra) in the countryside of Homs."

The source continued, "The enemy targeted a communications tower and some points surrounding it," which led to the death of a soldier, the wounding of 3 others, and the infliction of some material losses, without further details.

The attack came after Syrian official media reported a few days ago that the Syrian air defenses repelled an Israeli attack targeting the countryside of Homs, injuring 6 Syrian soldiers and causing material losses.

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For years, regime-controlled areas have been subjected to Israeli bombardment from time to time, targeting sites for its forces, and what are described as military bases affiliated with Iran and its armed groups.

At the end of last September, Reuters news agency quoted military and local sources as saying that unidentified planes targeted a base run by Iranian-backed armed factions in Deir ez-Zor governorate in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, where, according to observers, Tehran expanded its military presence last year 2020.

Military sources and residents of the area said that the strikes took place south of the town of Al-Mayadin on the Euphrates River, which has become a major base for a number of armed Shiite factions, mostly from Iraq, since the expulsion of ISIS fighters.

The Israeli occupation army also announced at the time the downing of a drone belonging to it inside Syrian territory, as a result of a “technical defect,” and he said - in a brief statement - “during a routine activity, an Israeli army drone fell inside Syrian territory.”

In mid-August, Israeli warplanes bombed Syrian sites in the Quneitra governorate, on the Syrian side of the ceasefire line in the occupied Golan.

State media in Syria said at the time that explosions were heard in an area near the town of "Hadr", which is located in the Quneitra Governorate, near the Golan Heights, which is occupied by Israel.