Israeli missile strikes kill 3 near Syria’s capital
Al JazeeraMissiles were fired from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and some were intercepted by Syrian air defences. Israeli surface-to-surface missiles have killed three people near the Syrian capital, Damascus, state media reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the three people killed were military officers and four other members of an air defence crew were wounded. The latest strike follows one on May 13 that killed five people in central Syria, and another near Damascus on April 27, which according to the Syrian Observatory killed 10 combatants, among them six Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest raid in 2022. Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes there, targeting government troops as well as allied Iran-backed forces and fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.