The Syrian Ministry of Defense said, on Friday, that an Israeli "aggression" launched from the Golan Heights and targeted some points south of the capital, Damascus, killing 3 people and causing some material losses.
A Syrian military source confirmed, in a statement, that "our air defense media confronted the aggression's missiles and shot down most of them, and the aggression led to the death of 3 martyrs and the infliction of some material losses."
Residents of the south of the capital, Damascus, said that several missiles fell in the vicinity of Damascus International Airport, and other missiles fell on Jabal Al-Manea on the outskirts of the town of Kiswa, south of the capital.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the killing of 3 officers and the wounding of 4 others from the regime's air defense crews, "as a result of the Israeli bombing that targeted military sites and warehouses of Iranian militias in the vicinity of the capital, Damascus."
It is noteworthy that the Israeli bombing of Syria is the eighth this year, and the second this month, as an attack on May 13 killed 5 Syrian soldiers, and another attack on April 27 killed 10, including 6 Syrian soldiers, in The most violent raid of its kind since the beginning of 2022.
From time to time, the areas under the control of the Syrian regime have been subjected, for years, to Israeli bombardment, targeting sites for its forces and military bases affiliated with Iran and its armed groups, as Israel says that it wants to prevent what it calls Iranian military entrenchment there.