ALBAWABA - According to a report by Syrian news agency SANA, an overnight Israeli airstrike killed one soldier and injured 3 others.
The report revealed that the strike targeted Syrian military sites in the southern region and a residential building in Kafr Sousa neighborhood in Damascus.
"A soldier was martyred and three others were injured by an Israeli aerial act of aggression that occurred after midnight Sunday," SANA reported.
The Syrian military released a statement detailing that the strike came from the direction of the "occupied Syrian Golan,". The statement also added that the Syrian military had intercepted several Israeli missiles.
"The Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression from the direction of occupied Syrian Golan, while our Syrian Arab Army’s air defense systems intercepted the missiles launched by the Israeli enemy and downed some of them," a military source said in a statement.
On July 3rd, an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed a senior commander in Hezbollah and injured another man who is believed to be the commander's son in the southern city of Tyre.
The targeted commander has been identified and is known as Abu Nehme Nasser (أبو نعمة ناصر).