Syria's air defense units fired on targets in the skies over Damascus on Wednesday, the SANA news agency quoted a military source as saying.
"Syrian air defenses repelled an aggressive attack by Israel, which launched a missile strike on a number of military sites in the southwest of the capital," the source said, adding that Syrian anti-aircraft forces managed to shoot down some of the missiles.
"One soldier was seriously wounded as a result of the attack and there was material damage," the source noted.
The latest Israeli attack was on Damascus occurred on May 29. The missiles were fired at the positions of Syrian troops from the airspace over the occupied Golan Heights.
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Based on materials from TASS