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Israel attacks Syria with jets and ground-to-ground missiles, claims Syrian army | Israel attacks Syria with jets and ground-to-ground missiles, claims Syrian army |
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Israel has attacked several military outposts near the Syrian capital with jets and ground-to-ground missiles in an early-morning strike, Syria's army said. | |
In a statement reported by state media, the Assad regime's forces said Israeli jets fired missiles at the al-Qutayfah area near Damascus from inside Lebanese airspace, and its air defences hit one of the planes. | |
Israel then fired ground-to-ground rockets from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, but the Syrian defences brought the missiles down, the Syrian army said. | |
It said Israeli jets fired a final barrage of four rockets from inside Israel, and the Syrian air defences brought down one, but the others caused material damage. | |
The Israeli military declined to comment. | |
Last August, the chief of the Israeli air force said his forces had struck in Syria around 100 times. | |
Israel has pledged to prevent Syrian territory being used for Iran to set up bases or transfer high-quality weaponry to Lebanon's Hezbollah group, which has been helping Damascus beat back a six-year-old rebellion. | |
The Syrian army statement described the attack as a "flagrant Israeli aggression" and renewed its warning of the dangerous repercussions of such attacks, holding Israel "fully responsibility for its consequences." | |
Syrian opposition-affiliated media said the Israeli planes targeted a Syrian army depot, though the target could not be independently confirmed. | |
Al-Qutayfah is in the northeastern suburbs of Damascus, where Syrian Republican Guard units are known to have major outposts. | |
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