Three civilians has been reported injured after Israel launched an air strike on Syria.
According to state media, the attack was carried out early Saturday morning and the attach was targeted at a site near the Syrian city of Homs.
“At around 00:50 (2150 GMT)… the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with a number of missiles, from the direction of north Lebanon, targeting several positions in the vicinity of the city of Homs,” state news agency SANA reported.
“Three civilians were wounded and a civilian petrol station caught fire and a number of fuel tanks and trucks were burned,” it said, adding that Syrian air defences had intercepted some of the missiles.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring organisation based in Britain, a munitions depot belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah was destroyed by Israeli missiles at the Dabaa military airport in the rural area of Homs province.
The report stated that there were audible detonations resulting from the explosion of the munitions stored in the depot, and that fires were observed to be ablaze at the location. No information was provided regarding any casualties.
