The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that the Israeli army hit two air defense bases belonging to the government of Damascus in the region of Daraa with missiles.

No one was reported dead in the missile attack, carried out from the Golan Heights.

There was no report in the media affiliated with the government of Damascus about the attack.

According to the SOHR, two members of the air defense force were killed in mid-July in Israeli strikes targeting various positions in and around Damascus. The Syrian official news agency Sana reported that one Syrian soldier was killed, and three others were wounded.

The Israeli army, which rarely makes statements about the attacks, said it hit a Syrian army command center, infrastructure and targets belonging to the Syrian army’s air defense unit in retaliation for the launch of two drones from Syrian territory into Israel.

Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes targeting the army and pro-Iran groups supporting President Bashar Assad.

The number of these operations has increased since the start of the Gaza War on 7 October 2023. However, their intensity has decreased since the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April, which killed several senior Iranian officials. Tehran retaliated with an unprecedented airstrike on Israel on 13 April.