Three Syrian soldiers were killed in an alleged Israeli strike in southern Damascus, Syrian state media cited a Defense Ministry official as saying Saturday.
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The report said that surface-to-surface missiles targeted a site in Qurs al-Nafl, in Quneitra, late on Friday night, adding that Syrian air defenses were engaged. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the targets were Syrian army bases and Iranian militia hubs in a Damascus suburb.
Israeli media cited various Arab sources as reporting that the attack was launched from the Golan Heights and that fires started in the area as a result of the strikes.
Syrian media claimed that the country's air defense systems intercepted "hostile targets" over the capital. The country's state media often boasts about successfully engaging Israeli strikes, in what experts on Syria and the region say are hollow vaunts.
The IDF rarely comments on reports on its operations in Arab media.
The Israeli military has, however, acknowledged it has staged hundreds of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria over the years, as part of its efforts to prevent Iran from militarily entrenching itself in the war-torn country, which borders Israel to the north.
The alleged strikes came hours after IDF Spokesman in Arabic Maj. Avichay Adraee accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards Quds Force of smuggling weapons from Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon using civilian flights via Syria.
Hezbollah is Iran's largest proxy in the Middle East and is often used by Tehran in its state-sponsored terrorism efforts.
Adraee accused Iran and Hezbollah of "endangering civilians" by smuggling the armaments via civilian flights to Damascus International Airport in order "to maintain secrecy."
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