SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Israeli military said it attacked missile batteries in Syria on Wednesday after an anti-aircraft missile was fired towards Israel.
The Israeli military carried out a counter-strike in Syria in response to the launching of the anti-aircraft missile, Reuters cited it as saying.
The missile triggered sirens in parts of Israel and the occupied West Bank, and exploded in mid-air, it added.
“Following the anti-aircraft missile launch earlier tonight, the Israel Defense Forces attacked surface-to-air missile batteries and radar that fired at Israeli air force planes,” the military said on Twitter, according to Reuters.
Syrian state TV reported that Syrian air defenses had downed a number of Israeli missiles over Damascus.
Syrian state TV said Israel had launched surface-to-surface missiles from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syrian air defenses shot down some of them.
“Israeli aggression” also carried out an air strike earlier on Wednesday with missiles from southeast of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, state TV added, Reuters reported.
One Syrian soldier was killed and five were wounded in the attacks, state TV cited a military source as saying.
Israel has mounted frequent attacks against what it says are Iranian targets in Syria, where Tehran-backed forces led by Lebanon’s Hezbollah have supported President Bashar al-Assad over the past decade in Syria’s civil war.
