The Israeli army claimed responsibility on the night of Sunday to Monday for a series of air strikes against, it said, positions of the Islamic Jihad, near Damascus, Syria.
The strikes come after clashes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday that led to rockets fired by Islamic Jihad from the Palestinian enclave into Israeli territory, where authorities closed schools on Monday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) spoke of air strikes "near Damascus international airport" aimed at "positions of Iranian Revolutionary Guards", the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but also "positions of Islamic Jihad".
Since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against military positions in the power of Bashar al-Assad, but also against its steadfast allies, Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah, two great enemies of the state. Hebrew.
