Syria on Saturday accused Israel of launching an "air aggression" from the Mediterranean west of the city Tripoli, with several missiles targeting an area to the south of Tartus.
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According to state media, two civilians were injured in the alleged strike and the area sustained damage.
"The Israeli enemy carried out an air strike" near the town of Al-Hamidiyah, Syria's Defense Ministry said in a statement, identifying the locations hit as poultry farms, without elaborating.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the facility that was struck is used by the Hezbollah terrorist group.
Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told French news agency AFP that the airstrike targeted "warehouses… which the Lebanese Hezbollah group was using to transport weapons."
The IDF declined to comment on the report, as it is its policy not to address accusations in Arab media.
Meanwhile, Iran's top diplomat condemned Israel's reported airstrike and criticized recent threats from Turkey about another planned incursion by Ankara into northern Syria.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian's remarks came at the start of his visit to Syria, where he was expected to discuss mutual relations and regional affairs with top Syrian officials.
Amirabdollahian's visit came hours after Israel carried out an airstrike on a coastal Syrian village near the border with Lebanon, wounding two people, according to state media reports in Syria.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently said he's planning another major military cross-border incursion into Syria to create a 30-kilometer (19-mile) deep buffer zone along the border with Turkey, promising to battle U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish fighters for the territory.
"We understand the concerns of our neighbor Turkey but we oppose any military measure in Syria," Amirabdollahian said, adding that Iran is trying to resolve the "misunderstanding between Turkey and Syria through dialogue."
Amirabdollahian met later Saturday with Assad, who told the Iranian envoy that Turkey's "pretexts to justify its aggression in Syria are false, misleading and have nothing to do with reality." Assad's office also quoted the president as saying that Turkey's military presence in Syria violates international law.
Amirabdollahian condemned Israel for striking Syria. The Saturday morning attack was the first since a June 10 airstrike on the international airport in Damascus caused significant damage on the airport and rendered its main runway unusable. The airport was closed for two weeks for repairs before flights resumed on June 23.
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