Syria's military said Israel carried out airstrikes Monday night in the countryside around the city of Homs and the coastal city of Tartus, wounding two soldiers and causing material damage.
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The military said Israeli warplanes fired missiles while flying over neighboring Lebanon. It added that Syrian air defenses shot down most of the Israeli missiles without elaborating.
Video footage from the Homs area, broadcast by pro-Saudi news outlet Al-Hadath, purports to shows flames rising from a weapons warehouse allegedly belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
فيديو يظهر ما قيل إنه تدمير إسرائيلي لمخازن أسلحة للحرس الثوري الإيراني في #حمص#سوريا#الحدث pic.twitter.com/xHSOi7RGkJ
— ا لـ حـ ـد ث (@AlHadath) November 8, 2021
In neighboring Lebanon, a woman was lightly wounded and several homes were damaged when parts from Syrian anti-aircraft missiles fell in the northeastern Lebanese village of Sahlat al-Maa near the Syrian border, state-run National News Agency said.
The strikes came amid an increase in reported attacks by Israel on Syria in recent weeks.
Israel has staged hundreds of strikes on Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
Israel has acknowledged, however, that it is targeting bases of Iran-allied groups, such as the powerful Lebanese terrorist Hezbollah group.
Israel says an Iranian presence on its northern frontier is a red line, and it has repeatedly struck what it has described as Iran-linked facilities and weapons convoys destined for Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group.
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