“The Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of targets in the Damascus countryside. Our air defense systems repulsed the aggression missiles and shot down some of them,” the department said in a Facebook post.*

Earlier, the Syrian Ministry of Defense confirmed information about the Israeli army carrying out strikes on a number of targets in the province of Homs.

* Meta Platforms Inc. (owner of Facebook and Instagram) - the organization is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia by decision of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow dated March 21, 2022.