An Israeli strike hit a building operated by Syrian security forces on Thursday. (Representative)
Damascus:
The Syrian Defense Ministry said on Friday that eight soldiers were injured in Israeli airstrikes near Damascus.
On Thursday night, “the Israeli enemy launched airstrikes from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a location near Damascus… injuring eight soldiers,” the ministry said in a statement.
Israel rarely comments on individual attacks, but it has repeatedly said it will not allow its archenemy, Iran, to expand its presence in Syria.
The Israeli military has carried out hundreds of attacks in Syria since the outbreak of a civil war in its northern neighbor in 2011, mainly targeting military positions and Iranian-backed fighters.
But attacks increased after Israel’s war with the Iranian-backed Palestinian operational group Hamas in the Gaza Strip began on October 7.
On April 19, Israeli strikes targeted a Syrian army position in the south of the country, the Syrian government and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said, while US media reported that Israel had struck the Will.
During the night of April 13, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles against Israel, in an unprecedented attack that occurred in retaliation for a deadly attack – widely attributed to Israel – on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
The war in Syria has killed more than half a million people and displaced millions more since it erupted in March 2011 with the repression of anti-government protests.
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