Syrian soldier killed in Israeli missile attack: state media | Conflict News

Most of the missile’s air defenses fell, and the attack caused some material loss, according to state media.

Syrian air defenses faced an Israeli missile attack in the south of the country and a Syrian soldier was killed, a military source told the state news agency (SANA) on Thursday.

“At around 12:50 p.m., the Israeli enemy launched an air strike with several missiles in the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan and targeted several southern positions,” according to a military source quoted by SANA.

The Syrian air defense managed to “drop most of the missiles,” the source added, adding that “the attack resulted in the death and material damage of a soldier.”

Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, Israel has attacked hundreds of targets within areas controlled by the Damascus government, but rarely supports or discusses such operations.

Earlier this month, the Syrian army said Israeli fighter jets fired missiles In the port of Latakia, damaging containers but without causing death. The port of Latakia is an essential facility where many Syrian imports are transported to a war-torn country.

In late November, Israeli missile attacks also killed five people in western Homs province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

In two Israeli attacks in October, five pro-Iranian militants were killed near the Syrian capital Damascus, and nine pro-government fighters were killed near a T4 air base in eastern Syrian-central Palmyra, a UK-based Syrian rights group said.

Israel has admitted to targeting allied militias in Iran, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah group, which has deployed fighters in Syria. He says he is attacking weapons shipments aimed at militias.

Hezbollah is fighting for the strength of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the civil war of the decade.

Israel says Iran’s presence on its northern border is a red line, and it justifies attacks on facilities and weapons inside Syria.

The Syrian conflict has killed nearly 500,000 people since it began in 2011 with the brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations.