Israeli jets fired missiles on targets near Damascus early on Wednesday, reportedly killing one Syrian soldier and wounding three.
A Britain-based war monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the Israeli strikes targeted a weapons and rocket warehouse used by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other groups.
The after-midnight attack in the Zabadani region in the Damascus countryside targeted a Syrian air defense unit and also caused material damage, an unnamed Syrian military official was quoted as saying by the official news agency.
It was the second reported attack in the past week. Israeli jets bombed targets in the central Syrian town of Masyaf on Thursday.
The Observatory said the area targeted on Wednesday is mountainous. The warehouses had been carved into the mountain, which has over the years of the conflict become a haven for the Iran-backed militias.
The Observatory also said the strikes hit a Syrian air defense unit in the area as it attempted to respond to the incoming missiles, killing one soldier and wounding five others. Russian troops, also a key ally of the Syrian regime, are deployed nearby, the Observatory said.
