A Druze youth waves a Syrian flag throughout a rally calling for the return to Syria of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967. (AP Photograph/Ariel Schalit)
DAMASCUS, SYRIA --
Israel fired a number of missiles towards Syrian navy positions close to the capital Damascus Monday, killing two civilians and inflicting materials injury, Syria's defence ministry stated. It was the primary Israeli assault inside Syria since Russia, a key backer of President Bashar Assad, invaded Ukraine.
The defence ministry stated in a press release that Israeli warplanes flying over neighbouring Lebanon fired the missiles towards Syria, including that Syrian air defences shot down many of the missiles.
It gave no additional particulars or say how the civilians had been killed.
Israel didn't touch upon the assault and barely acknowledges such operations. However it has launched lots of of strikes on targets inside government-controlled components of Syria throughout its previous decade of civil warfare.
Israel depends on Russia for safety coordination in Syria, the place Russia has a powerful navy presence, forcing Israel's prime minister seek for center floor between Russia and Ukraine. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has additionally assumed the unlikely function of mediator between Russia and Ukraine.
Monday's assault was the primary since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, sparking the present warfare. On that very same day, three Syrian troopers had been killed in an Israeli assault close to Damascus.
Israel says that its strikes inside Syria goal bases of Iran-allied militias, akin to Lebanon's Hezbollah, that battle on the aspect of President Bashar Assad's forces.
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