Syria blames Israel as air defences fire at ‘hostile target’ breaching its air space

Syria blames Israel as air defences fire at ‘hostile target’ breaching its air space near Damascus for the second time in less than two weeks

  • Foreign aircraft entered Syria’s air space near the Lebanese border on Sunday
  • State media claimed ‘Israeli enemy attacked military positions’
  • Another incursion took place in same area last Thursday, also blamed on Israel
  • Planes were said to be attacking regime and loyalist positions

Syria says its air defences fired at a ‘hostile target’ breaching the country’s air space west of the capital Damascus.

State news agency SANA blamed Israel for the incursion and another last Thursday night when its air defences were activated in a similar way in the same area.

‘In the past few weeks, the Israeli enemy has attacked military positions,’ it said of the engagements near the Lebanese border.

Syria says its air defences fired at a ‘hostile target’ breaching the country’s air space west of the capital Damascus

There were reports of ‘air defences confronting a hostile target breaching the skies above the area of Deir al-Asha’ir in the Damascus countryside’ early Sunday morning.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air defences reacted to ‘targets aiming at regime and loyalist positions in Deir al-Ashair’ near the Lebanese border. 

It said Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which has been backing the Damascus government in Syria’s seven-year civil war, was present in the area.

There were reports of ‘air defences confronting a hostile target breaching the skies above the area of Deir al-Asha’ir in the Damascus countryside’ early Sunday morning

Israel, concerned Iran’s growing presence in Syria poses a threat to its security, has struck dozens of Iranian and Iran-backed positions in Syria over the course of the country’s seven-year conflict.

A spokeswoman for the Israeli military said it did not comment on foreign reports.

Damascus last month took back control of its entire border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and its southwest border with Jordan after an offensive which began in June.

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