Israeli warplanes struck Syrian positions south of the capital Damascus late Tuesday night, Syrian state-run media reported.
The Syrian Arab News Agency said Syria's air defenses responded to incoming missiles late Tuesday. Later reports on SANA and Syrian Al-Ikhbariya TV said Israeli warplanes struck in a village in Quneitra province on the edge of the Golan Heights and southwest of the capital Damascus.
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While official Syrian reports claimed the strikes caused only material damage, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that eight people were killed in the strike, which reportedly targeted a weapons depot and a position held by Iranian forces and their Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
The Israeli military did not comment on the report.
Israel rarely claimes responsibility for strikes in Syria. Last week, however, the IDF confirmed it targeted Iranian and Syrian military assets near Damascus. The strike came in response to explosives placed on the Israel-Syria border.
Israel has carried out hundreds of air and missile strikes on Syria, targeting mostly Iranian assets in the war-torn country, where the Islamic republic has been trying to entrench itself militarily, something Israel has made clear it will not allow.
Iran's notorious extraterritorial black-ops arm, the Quds Force, has been heavily involved in the Syrian civil war. Tehran is largely credited for keeping Syrian President Bashar Assad in power throughout the bloody, near-decade-long conflict.
Last month, an overnight attack on a location in Quneitra was reported by Syrian media, which also said Israeli warplanes were behind it. A war monitor said three people were killed in that attack on a post used by Iran-allied militias.
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