An Israeli military spokesman claimed to have hit a Syrian air defence battery that fired an anti-aircraft missile towards Israel.
According to the Reuters news agency, the army spokesman said in a statement issued on Sunday that Israeli warplanes had also hit other locations in the area. There were no reports of any casualties from the Syrian missile strikes.
Earlier, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, said that the country’s air defence system stopped. The Israeli missile attack in the central parts of Syria and shot down most of the missiles.
The news agency says the missiles, which flew over parts of Lebanon’s capital Beirut. Fell on locations around the Syrian city of Homs, causing property damage.
In recent months, there has been an increase in Israeli attacks on Syrian air and military bases. To prevent Iran’s growing use of aerial supply lines to deliver weapons to its allies in Syria and Lebanon. Including Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Israeli military experts say the Israeli strikes are aimed at reducing Iran’s growing involvement in Syria, where the conflict has raged for years.
Tehran’s influence in Syria has grown since then. He supported President Bashar al-Assad in the 2011 civil war.
Iranian-allied fighters, including Hezbollah, now control swathes of eastern, southern, and northwestern Syria and several suburbs around the capital.
