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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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Syria's army says Israel has attacked Syrian territory with jets and ground-to-ground missiles in an early-morning strike. 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 its air defences had hit an Israeli aircraft and had intercepted some rockets fired from Israeli territory, but that the attack had caused damage. 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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