Israeli air strikes near Syria’s capital Damascus -State TV

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Syrian state tv reported that Israeli air strikes had hit a number of places within the countryside west of the capital Damascus on Thursday.

Syrian state information company SANA, citing a navy supply, stated Syrian air defences had shot down “some” of the missiles fired.

It stated the strikes solely prompted bodily injury however didn’t specify additional.

Israel has mounted frequent assaults towards what it has described as Iranian targets in Syria, the place Tehran-backed forces together with Lebanon’s Hezbollah have deployed during the last decade to help President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s conflict.

A professional-government allied commander denied to Reuters that Thursday’s strikes had hit their positions outdoors Damascus.

There was no instant remark from the Israeli authorities.

In March, state media reported that an Israeli assault over the Syrian capital Damascus killed two civilians and left some materials injury.

(Reporting by Maya Gebeily, Alaa Swilam and Omar Fahmy; modifying by Jonathan Oatis, Bernard Orr)