| A little more about this story from yesterday. |
Syrian state news agency SANA confirmed the raids and said they caused only material damage.
"The Israeli enemy launched an aerial aggression with a number of missiles," the news agency quoted a military source as saying, naming the targeted area as Zakia.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the targets were army positions and arms depots belonging to Iran-backed militias.
Israel carries out raids on Syria mostly during nighttime. Wednesday's raid occurred shortly after midnight, Syria's military said.
There has been an increase in reported Israel attacks in recent weeks.
Similar strikes last week killed at least five militiamen, the Observatory said.
Israel has staged hundreds of strikes on Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
Israel has acknowledged, however, that it is targeting bases of Iran-allied groups, such as Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
It is going after arms shipments believed to be bound for the group. Hizbullah is fighting on the side of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
's forces in the civil war.
Israel says Iranian presence on its northern frontier is a red line, and it has repeatedly struck what it has described as Iran-linked facilities and weapons convoys destined for Hizbullah.