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Israeli airstrike

Israel has fired several missiles toward Syrian military positions near Damascus, causing material damage, Syria’s military said Friday.

By Associated Press

State media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the attack occurred shortly before midnight Thursday, adding that some of the Israeli missiles were shot down by Syrian air defenses.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the missiles struck positions of Iran-backed fighters southwest of the capital, near the suburb of Qatana.

There was no comment from the Israeli military.

Israel has staged hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.

It has acknowledged, however, that it targets the bases of Iran-allied militias, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group, which has fighters deployed in Syria. Israeli strikes arms shipments bound for the terror groups.

Israel strikes facilities and weapons inside Syria because Iranian presence on its northern frontier has been declared a red line by the Jewish state.

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