Overnight airstrikes near Damascus and Homs activated Syria's air defenses, Syrian state news agency SANA reported overnight. Syrian sources attributed the strikes to Israel.
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An army source told SANA that shortly after 11 p.m., Israel launched airstrikes on the Damascus and Homs regions that targeted sites affiliated with the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iranian militias west of Damascus.
A Syrian military source called the incident "an air aggression" by "the Israeli enemy."
News outlets in Lebanon also reported that six missiles had been fired from Lebanese airspace at targets used by Iran's Quds Force near Damascus. The Lebanese reports said that two of the six missiles had been intercepted and the remaining four fell in open areas, causing minimal damage.
The attacks were reportedly initiated from the airspace above Beirut, prompting Lebanon's Defense Minister Zaina Akar to condemn the attack.
The aggression "flagrantly violated Lebanese airspace at low altitude and caused a state of panic among the citizens," she said, added that she had filed a complaint in international bodies.
Akar also called on the UN to deter Israel from carrying out airstrikes on Syria using Lebanese airspace.
i24NEWS contributed to this report
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