A Syrian soldier was killed and five others were wounded as a result of Israeli shelling targeting military sites in the vicinity of Damascus at dawn on Wednesday, according to the official news agency, "SANA", quoting a military source.
The source spoke of an "aggression with surface-to-surface missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan" that targeted "some points in the vicinity of the city of Damascus" at dawn, which led to the killing of a soldier and the wounding of five soldiers, in addition to material losses.
The Syrian source said that the air defense forces confronted the Israeli missiles and shot down some of them.
For its part, the official Syrian TV reported material damage to a residential building, in addition to the damage to a number of cars in the Qudsaya area, which was hit by the bombing.
The Israeli novel
Director of Al Jazeera's office in occupied Jerusalem, Walid Al-Omari, stated that a Syrian anti-aircraft missile penetrated the airspace in the Umm al-Fahm area, south of Haifa, at dawn today, and exploded without the anti-aircraft being able to intercept it.
He added that the missile was launched by the Syrian army at Israeli planes that raided targets in the Damascus area, as sirens sounded in areas south of Haifa, the Triangle and east of Hadera.
According to Al-Omari, the occupation army carried out a second raid in the vicinity of the capital, Damascus, after that.
This is the fifth time that Syrian missiles have been able to penetrate Israeli airspace and have been chasing intrusive Israeli planes in the past three years.
For its part, the Israeli occupation army confirmed on its Twitter account that it had struck surface-to-air missile targets in Syria, including radar and anti-aircraft missile batteries, in response to the launch of an anti-aircraft missile from Syria.
Israel periodically targets Syrian army sites and other sites it says are Iranian and Hezbollah targets.
On January 31, an Israeli bombardment targeted "military sites and warehouses of weapons and ammunition" belonging to Hezbollah, northeast of Damascus.
On the sixth of the same month, Israel announced that it had launched artillery shells on the Syrian side of the border, after it spotted "a number of suspects inside military points."
Two gunmen loyal to the Syrian regime were also killed in an Israeli bombardment on December 28, the port of Latakia in western Syria.
Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in recent years in Syria, but it rarely claims responsibility for them.
And it reiterates that it will continue to confront what it describes as Iran's attempts to consolidate its military presence in Syria.