New Israeli missile attack on Syrian capital injures two soldiers
Syrian air defenses have responded to another Israeli aggression targeting the countryside of the country’s capital Damascus. shooting down some of the regime’s missiles.
The late Sunday attack came as the Zionist regime is intensifying attacks on Syria after the beginning of its devastating genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
“At approximately 22:05 pm today, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in the Damascus countryside,” Syria’s official news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying in a statement.
The military source added that Syrian air defense forces intercepted the Israeli missiles and shot down a number of them.
إصابة عسكريين اثنين جراء عدوان إسرائيلي بالصواريخ على نقاط بريف #دمشقhttps://t.co/KkkikCmfxU pic.twitter.com/IB8zSaFSYM
— الوكالة العربية السورية للأنباء - سانا (@SanaAjel) December 17, 2023
“The Israeli aggression led to injury of two soldiers and some material losses,” the statement concluded.
The new Israeli act of aggression came a week after a similar strike on areas near Damascus, which only caused limited material losses.
Earlier in December, another Israeli strike, which also came from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, targeted the vicinity of Damascus and led to material losses.
It came a week after another airstrike that put Damascus International Airport out of service.
Israel has intensified its acts of aggression against Syria since the regime's bloody onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip started on October 7 following a surprise operation by the territory’s resistance groups, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm.
Nearly 19,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in the Israeli strikes on the blockaded territory since that time.
Israel has been one of the main supporters of terrorist groups that oppose the democratically-elected government of President Bashar al-Assad since the foreign-backed militancy erupted in Syria.
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