According to official media, a Syrian soldier was killed in a missile strike from the occupied Golan Heights into southern Syria on Thursday.
According to a military source published by SANA, “at around 12:50 a.m., the Israeli enemy launched an air raid with multiple missiles in the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan and targeting several sites in the south.”
The Syrian air defences “shot down most of the missiles,” according to the source, who also stated that “the aggression resulted in the loss of a soldier and material damage.”
Israel struck an Iranian arms shipment at the port of Latakia, in President Bashar al-western Assad’s Syrian heartland, in early December, without incurring any deaths.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor with a large network of sources in Syria, three troops and two Syrian militants associated with the Lebanese Shiite organisation Hezbollah were killed in Israeli attacks in late November.
Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on Syrian soil, primarily targeting government sites as well as allied Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah soldiers.
A representative for the Israeli military declined to comment on the report.
However, Israel has stated repeatedly that it will not allow Iran to expand its presence in the nation.
Since 2011, when the conflict in Syria began with the violent repression of peaceful protests, approximately 500,000 people have died.
