Tel Aviv [Israel], August 23: Two people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the outskirts of Damascus, a
monitoring group said on Tuesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has been monitoring violence in Syria since 2011, said those killed were soldiers but that it was not yet known whether they Syrians.
It added that the overnight strikes targeted military sites south-west and south-east of the capital,
Damascus.
The state-run Syrian News Agency (SANA) confirmed the strikes by what a military source called "the Israeli enemy" and said one soldier was wounded.
It added that Syrian air defences were able to down some of the missiles.
The Israeli military did not comment on the reports.
The observatory said warehouses and military sites of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement and Iranian militias were hit.
Israel regularly bombs targets in neighbouring war-torn Syria in an effort to prevent arch-rival Iran from expanding its influence there.
Israel has for years been carrying out attacks against what it has described as Iran-linked targets in Syria, where Tehran's influence has grown since it began supporting President Bashar al Assad in the civil war that started in 2011.
Earlier on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at the scene of a terror attack in the West Bank in which an Israeli woman was killed, said that Israel "is in the middle of a terror attack that is encouraged, guided and funded by Iran and its satellite states."
Israel, he said, would employ measures to settle the score with the attackers and those who sent them, from near or far.
Source: Qatar Tribune
