Nighttime missile fire blamed on Israel targeted
"targets"
around Damascus, the Syrian capital, the Syrian news agency Sana reported on Monday (February 15th), adding that the air defense had been activated to counter this
"aggression. "
.
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Shortly after midnight,
"the Israeli enemy carried out an aggression with bursts of missiles
(fired)
from the occupied Syrian Golan and the Galilee,"
the Sana news agency reported, citing a military source.
These bombings were aimed
"at targets around Damascus"
, adds the same source without further details, specifying that the Syrian air defense was activated and
"shot down most"
of the missiles.
In early February, Syria accused Israel of firing missiles into the south of its territory.
Since the outbreak of war in its neighbor Syrian in 2011, the Jewish state has carried out hundreds of strikes there against positions of the Syrian power and its allies, Iranian troops and Lebanese Hezbollah forces.
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As of mid-January already, at least 57 soldiers and pro-regime fighters had been killed in raids targeting Deir Ez-Zor province in far eastern Syria, the deadliest attack ever carried out by the state Hebrew in a Syria at war, according to an NGO, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).
Israel regularly declares that it will not allow Syria to become the foothold of Iranian forces.
Triggered in March 2011 by the bloody repression of pro-democracy demonstrations, the war in Syria has grown in complexity over the years with the involvement of foreign powers and an increase in armed factions.
It has claimed more than 387,000 lives and displaced millions of people.