China News Agency, Beijing, February 9. Comprehensive news: In the early morning of the 9th local time, Israel launched two missile attacks on Syria, causing several casualties.
The Syrian News Agency quoted Syrian military sources as saying that at about 0:56 local time on the 9th, the Israeli military launched a missile attack on Syria from the southeast of the Lebanese capital. The Syrian air defense system immediately intercepted and successfully shot down some of the incoming missiles.
At about 1:10 local time on the 9th, the Israeli army launched a second missile attack from the direction of the Golan Heights occupied by it.
The Russian Satellite News Agency quoted a statement issued by the Syrian military as saying that the early morning attack by the Israeli army had killed one Syrian soldier, injured five others and damaged some supplies.
The Israel Defense Forces said on its official social media on the 9th that the target of the second attack was the radar and anti-aircraft battery of the Syrian army, in response to the "anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria earlier", but it did not admit that it had carried out the second attack. an attack.
Some foreign media believe that in the first attack that day, an anti-aircraft missile launched by the Syrian army crossed the border and exploded in Israeli airspace, causing the Israeli army to conduct a second retaliatory attack.
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Israeli army has repeatedly attacked Syria under the pretext of hitting Iranian military targets, but both the Syrian and Iranian governments deny that Iran has troops stationed in Syria.
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