DM Monitoring
Damascus: Syrian state media claims at least four civilians were killed when Israeli warplanes fired several missiles in central Syria region of Hama early on Friday, adding that its air defence forces downed most of the missiles.
The state-run SANA news agency quoted an unnamed military official as saying Friday’s attack took place shortly before dawn when Israeli warplanes flew over neighbouring Lebanon.
“At about four o’clock in the morning Friday, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial aggression with a barrage of missiles coming from the direction of the Lebanese city of Tripoli, aiming at some targets in the vicinity of Hama governorate. Our air defences confronted the enemy’s missiles and downed most of them,” the report quoted a military source as saying.
SANA later added that “the Israeli aggression resulted in the martyrdom of a family, including a father, mother and two children” on the western edges of the province.
Israel has launched hundreds of raids against what it calls Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
