Syrian air defense intercepted Israeli missiles over northern Aleppo province on Monday (July 19th), the official Sana news agency reported, an NGO specifying that the attack was aimed at pro-groups. diet.
"Monday at approximately 23 hours 37 (...) the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack in direction of the south-east of Aleppo, targeting positions in the area of Al-Safira"
, indicated the Syrian agency. Sana, citing a military source.
"Our air defenses intercepted the missiles (...) shooting down most of them,"
she added, adding that the assessment of the extent of the damage was underway.
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According to the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the missiles fell near the Al-Safira science research center, destroying bases and a weapons depot used by pro-Iran groups .
No casualties were immediately reported.
Since the outbreak of the war in Syria in 2011, the Jewish state has carried out hundreds of strikes there against positions of Syrian power and its allies, Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters.
Israel has rarely publicly acknowledged strikes in Syria, but the military has claimed to have hit at least 50 targets in the country last year.
Last June, Israeli airstrikes in central Syria killed at least eleven Syrian regime fighters.
