Syria Defence Ministry says 8 soldiers injured in Israeli airstrike outskirts of Damascus

Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 4th May. Syrian Defence Ministry on Friday said that Israel launched an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights against a military site near Damascus, which injured 8 soldiers and caused material losses.

Syrian Defence Ministry statement didn’t give no further details, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that explosions were heard in the southwestern countryside of the capital Damascus, along the administrative boundary shared with Quneitra province and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

According to the Britain-based watchdog group, the explosions were accompanied by the flight of suspected Israeli drones, media reported.

The observatory’s director, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said that this is the only available information at present.

The attack follows a reported decline in Israeli attacks over the past month, which the Syrian observatory’s director attributed to the strikes on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1.

The targeted areas are known strongholds for elements of Hezbollah and Iranian-backed militias, according to the observatory.