An alleged Israeli airstrike targeted Syrian territory from Lebanese airspace on Tuesday night, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA.
The airstrikes targeted sites in central and southern Syria and caused damage without causing any casualties, according to SANA. Arabic media reported that the strikes targeted sites in the Damascus and Homs areas.
According to the opposition-affiliated Halab Today TV, casualties were reported in the airstrikes. The strikes targeted the town of Sahnaya and sites belonging to the First Divison in Al-Kiswah, as well as air defense batteries and a missile battalion belonging to the 155th Brigade north of Damascus. Sites in Homs and Latakia were also targeted by the strikes, according to the report.
Some eight Syrian soldiers were killed and a number of others were injured in the strikes, according to Halab Today.
Syrian air defense missiles fell in civilian areas southwest of Damascus, causing large amounts of material damage, but no casualties.
This is the first alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria in the past month, with the last such strike reported on May 10.
In the May 10th strike, a young man was injured after an Israeli helicopter allegedly targeted a house in Ain Eltinah, west of the town of Hader in the Quneitra governorate of Syria, east of the border with Israel, according to SANA.