On Thursday, an Israeli attack hit a building operated by Syrian security forces. (Representative)
Damascus:
Syria’s defense ministry said on Friday that eight soldiers were wounded in Israeli airstrikes near Damascus.
On Thursday evening, “the Israeli enemy launched air strikes from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights in Syria, targeting a location near Damascus… injuring eight soldiers,” the ministry said in a statement.
Israel rarely comments on individual attacks, but has repeatedly said it will not allow its archenemy Iran to expand its presence in Syria.
Since the outbreak of civil war in its northern neighbor in 2011, the Israeli military has carried out hundreds of attacks in Syria, mainly targeting army positions and Iranian-backed fighters.
However, the strikes intensified after Israel’s war against the Iran-backed Palestinian operational group Hamas began in the Gaza Strip on October 7.
On April 19, Israeli attacks targeted Syrian army positions in the south of the country, the Syrian government and war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as US media reported that Israel had struck Iran.
On the night of April 13, Iran fired hundreds of drones and missiles against Israel in an unprecedented attack that was retaliation for a deadly attack – widely blamed on Israel – on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
Since erupting in March 2011 with a crackdown on anti-government protests, the war in Syria has killed more than half a million people and displaced millions more.
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