OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel launched strikes
against targets in
Syria early Wednesday, hitting anti-aircraft batteries in
response to a missile fired from Syria, the military said.
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Sirens were sounded in the northern Israeli Arab
city of Umm Al-Fahm after the Syrian missile launch but it exploded in mid-air,
the Israeli forces tweeted.
“In response to the anti-aircraft missile launched
from Syria earlier tonight, we just struck surface-to-air missile targets in
Syria, including radar and anti-aircraft batteries,” the
Israeli forces said.
Syrian state media said the country’s air defenses
had been activated against Israeli fire “in the vicinity of
Damascus”.
Citing a military source, it said Israeli aerial attacks
began shortly before 1am and were accompanied at 1:10am by surface-to-surface
missile strikes “from the direction of the occupied Golan”.
“Our aerial defenses confronted the enemy’s missiles
and shot some of them down,” the Syrian news agency SANA said.
SANA said one soldier was killed and five others
wounded, “along with material damage”.
Israel rarely comments on the air strikes it carries
out in Syria but has said repeatedly it will not allow its archfoe
Iran to
extend its footprint in the country.
Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has
carried out hundreds of air strikes on
Syrian territory, targeting government
positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah fighters.
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