Israel said on Sunday it had shot down a drone that had infiltrated from Syrian territory into Israeli airspace, while Damascus said an explosion with an improvised explosive device (IED) occurred in the Mezzeh suburb near the Syrian capital.
The Israeli military spokesman said helicopters and fighter jets were called in following the detection of an unknown drone that had infiltrated from Syrian territory into Israeli airspace.
He added that the march was shot down in an open area without posing any danger.
Israel's state broadcaster said the march, which entered from Syria, was suspected of being Iranian.
This comes with a succession of air strikes on Syrian territory in recent days, the latest of which was in the early hours of Sunday in the Homs region and its countryside in the center of the country.
With official silence in Tel Aviv over the attacks, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday that his country would work to get Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah out of Syria and would not allow them to harm Israelis.
Minister Gallant added that the location of Iranian forces and Hezbollah operatives is Iran.
Mezzeh explosion
The Syrian news agency SANA quoted a source in the Damascus Police Command as saying that an explosion occurred on Sunday in the area of the Mezzeh suburb near the Syrian capital Damascus.
The agency added that the explosion was an explosive device in a civilian car, which led to its burning, and the Syrian Interior Ministry said that the explosion resulted in two people being lightly injured.
According to eyewitnesses, the explosion was large and was heard around the Mezzeh military airport.
Reuters reported that an eyewitness said the blast occurred near a vital intersection near a busy restaurant.
It was not clear if a specific person was targeted by the rare attack, which took place in a luxurious area where senior government and security officials reside.
Israeli sources ruled out that Tel Aviv had anything to do with the car bomb explosion near Mezzeh military airport.
Israeli raids
The official Syrian news agency had quoted a military source that 5 military personnel were wounded on Sunday, in addition to material losses, as a result of what the source described as an Israeli aggression with rockets on sites in the city of Homs and its countryside in central Syria.
The source added that Syrian air defenses shot down some missiles.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the death of one of its military advisers, a captain named Mekdad Mahqani, after he was wounded in an Israeli raid on the outskirts of Damascus early last Friday.
The IRGC stressed that what it called the crime of the criminal Zionist entity will not go unanswered.
Mehqani is the second Iranian military adviser to be killed in the raid on the outskirts of Damascus early last Friday.
"The strikes on Sunday killed two pro-Iranian fighters of unknown nationality so far, and wounded five air defence personnel as a result of Israeli shelling," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The two men were killed when Israeli shelling targeted a "weapons depot" belonging to Lebanese Hezbollah in the area of Dabaa military airport in southwestern Homs province, destroying it, the Observatory said.