JERUSALEM – The Israeli military said it had fired missile batteries at Syria on Wednesday after a shot was fired at an airplane bound for Israel when a Syrian state television reported a previous strike near Damascus.
A military spokesman declined to comment on a report from Syria on Israel’s first offensive near the Syrian capital, which reportedly killed one soldier and wounded five.
But troops say they have staged a strike in Syria in response to the launch of an anti-aircraft missile. It said the arrow blew up sirens in parts of Israel and the West Bank eating and exploded into the air.
“After the launch of anti-aircraft missiles early in the evening, the Israeli Defense Forces attacked the batteries from the air into the air and radar fired on Israeli air force planes,” the soldiers said on Twitter.
Syrian state television said earlier that Syrian air defense forces had dropped Israeli missiles on Damascus.
Israel fired missiles from Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, and Syrian air force fired some of it, Syria State TV said.
“Israeli Cruelty” hit a plane again on Wednesday with arrows from the southeast of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, added TV.
One Syrian soldier has been killed and five wounded in the attack, state television reported, citing a military source.
Israel has repeatedly attacked Iran in Syria, where Tehran-backed Lebanese-led Hezbollah forces have backed President Bashar al-Assad over the past decade in the Syrian civil war.