Israel carried out a missile attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus and its southern suburbs early Thursday that wounded four soldiers, Syria's state media claimed.
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State news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying that Syrian air defenses were able to shoot down most of the missiles before they hit their targets. SANA said some of the missiles were fired by Israeli warplanes flying over neighboring Lebanon.
Syrian state media routinely makes such claims, which Middle East analysts often dismiss as hollow boasts.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, reported that the strikes targeted military posts near Damascus. It gave no further details.
Lebanon's Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV said one of the Syrian air defense missiles exploded near the Lebanon-Syria border and was heard in parts of southern Lebanon. It later said the missile crashed near the Lebanese border village of Houla.
Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
Israel views Iranian entrenchment on its northern frontier as a red line, and it has repeatedly struck Iran-linked facilities and weapons convoys destined for Hezbollah.
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