Israeli missiles fired into Syria during an attack on Thursday hit several Syrian air defense positions, a radar position and an ammunition depot, Syrian state media reported, APA reports quoting Reuters.
State media reported that Syrian air defenses had brought down tens of Israeli missiles but added “some of them managed to target a number of air defense (positions), radar and an ammunition depot,” state news agency SANA said.
It said some Israeli missiles had been brought down south of the city of Homs.
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Israel launched dozens of rockets into Syria early on Thursday, destroying a radar installation and hitting an ammunitions dump, Syrian state media reported after Israel’s military said Iranian forces in Syria had shelled one of its outposts near the border, APA reports quoting Reuters, APA reports quoting Reuters.
The scale of Israeli fire was far higher than in previous incidents and Damascus residents described seeing a series of explosions above the city from air defense systems.
Tensions between Israel and Iran have threatened to spill over in Syria, where the Iranian military and allied Shi’ite militia are backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his war against rebels seeking to oust him.
“Air defenses confronted tens of Israeli rockets and some of them reached their target and destroyed one of the radar sites,” Syrian state news agency SANA reported, citing a military source. Another rocket hit an ammunition warehouse, it said.
Asked whether Israel had attacked near Damascus or scrambled communications there, an Israeli military spokeswoman said: “I have no comment on that at this time.”
Syrian state television was broadcasting footage of its air defenses firing at incoming rockets, and playing patriotic songs.
It said Israeli warplanes were firing the rockets from outside Syria’s borders and targeting Baath City in Quneitra province.
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