Desk Report
Published: 14 Oct 2021, 02:41 pm
One Syrian soldier killed, three wounded in Israeli air attack || Photo: Collected
One
Syrian soldier was killed and three others wounded in an Israeli air attack on
Syria's Palmyra area in the province of Homs on Wednesday evening, the Syrian
defense ministry said.
The
attack took place at 23:34 local time (2034 GMT) and targeted a communications
tower and caused some material losses, it added in a short statement on its
Facebook page, reports Reuters.
The
incident came days after Syrian state media reported that Syrian air defenses
intercepted an Israeli missile attack above the Homs countryside, wounding six
Syrian soldiers and causing some material damage.
Israel
has for several years been mounting attacks on what it has described as
Iranian-linked targets in Syria, where Tehran-backed forces including Lebanon's
Hezbollah have put down a presence since deploying to help President Bashar
al-Assad in the Syrian conflict that erupted in 2011.