The battle in Syria has killed almost half one million individuals since warfare started in 2011. (Representational)

Damascus:

Syrian air defence intercepted Israeli missiles south of Damascus on Monday, with no casualties reported, a navy supply instructed Syria’s official information company SANA.

“The Israeli enemy carried out an airstrike from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting points south of Damascus,” with Syria’s air defence intercepting a lot of the missiles, SANA quoted the navy supply as saying.

“The losses were limited to material damage.”

An AFP correspondent within the capital Damascus heard loud noises within the night.

The airstrike focused websites within the southern Damascus countryside the place the Lebanese Hezbollah group and Syrian air defence items are lively, stated the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights warfare monitor.

Last month, Israeli surface-to-surface missiles killed at the least three Syrian officers close to Damascus, based on the Observatory — which has a large community of sources inside Syria.

The Israeli strikes had focused Iranian positions and weapon depots close to Damascus, the monitor stated on the time.

Since civil warfare broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out tons of of air strikes in opposition to its neighbour, concentrating on authorities troops in addition to allied Iran-backed forces and fighters of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah.

While Israel not often feedback on particular person strikes, it has acknowledged finishing up tons of of them.

The Israeli navy has defended them as crucial to stop its arch-foe Iran from gaining a foothold on its doorstep.

The battle in Syria has killed almost half one million individuals and compelled round half of the nation’s pre-war inhabitants from their houses.

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