Israeli strikes targeted a “residential building” west of the Syrian capital early Saturday, a war monitor said, with state media reporting Syrian air defenses responded to an Israeli “air attack”.
The strikes have increased since Israel’s war with Hamas began on October 7.
The “Israeli attack” early Saturday targeted “a residential building west of the Syrian capital Damascus”, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based war monitor, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria, reported the sound of “violent explosions” including from the Dimas area in Damascus province.
State news agency SANA cited a military source saying that “the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of points in the Damascus countryside”.
Air defenses responded to the missiles and “downed some of them”, the statement said, adding that the attack caused “some material losses”.
The strikes came hours after an area near a military airport west of Damascus came under missile attack on Friday, the Observatory said, while the defense ministry said drones had entered Syrian airspace from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The Observatory had said “the area of the Mazzeh military airport west of the capital Damascus was targeted”, without saying who was behind what it described as a “missile” attack.
“Positions belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other pro-Iran groups are present” in the area, added the Observatory.
