The Syrian army says Israeli military planes flew over the Golan Heights to hit targets on the edge of Damascus.
The Syrian army said Monday that the country’s airstrikes included an “Israeli attack” on the capital, Damascus, in the latest step-by-step bombing of Iranian targets inside the country over the last two months.
The state media did not provide details about what was hit by the Israeli air force.
Israeli military planes flew over the Golan Heights to hit targets on the outskirts of the capital, an army statement said, not to mention casualties but to add to the majority of casualties. fired missiles taken down.
“Our air defenses continue to attack Israeli missile attacks over the capital’s skies,” the Syrian army said in a statement.
A Syrian military defender said the bombings hit a large army division in the city of Kiswa, nearly 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) south of the capital, in a sprawling area where it has the upper hand. iron-backed militias.
Witnesses heard large explosions on the southern edge of Damascus, residents said.
The Israeli armed forces did not immediately report the latest attack, but its top military officials have acknowledged that the escalating attacks inside Syria halted Tehran’s military presence in Syria.
Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi said at the end of last year that his country’s missile strikes had “delayed Iran’s halt in Syria,” hitting more than 500 targets in 2020 .
Western intelligence sources say Iran’s military influence has widened in Syria in recent years, forcing Israel to reduce their campaign to prevent its rival from developing a foothold. a large military frontier.
Iran’s proxy militias, led by Hezbollah from Lebanon, are now taking over large areas in eastern, southern and northwestern Syria, as well as several suburban areas around on Damascus. They also control the Lebanese-Syrian border areas.
Israel, which has stopped some of its biggest attacks yet inside Syria, is on al-Bukamal, a Syrian city that controls a border checkpoint on Baghdad’s main road. -Damascus.
The expanding military campaign is part of a so-called “internal war effort”, according to Israeli generals and regional intelligence sources, that has been firmly agreed with the United States.
The operations aimed at preventing Tehran from shifting the balance of power in Syria are in favor of a gradual decline in Iran’s widespread military power without encouraging a sharp rise in enemies, according to regional sources of information.