Israel fires missiles at Syria’s border province of Quneitra

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Israel fires missiles at Syria’s border province of Quneitra, causing “material damage”

Feb 23, 2022: Israel has fired several missiles at the Syrian border province of Quneitra, causing “material damage.”

A statement from the Syrian army did not provide details about the positions under attack after the missiles struck early Wednesday.

Syrian state TV quoted an unnamed Syrian military official as saying the missiles were fired from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Syria and hit areas around the nearby town of Quneitra. He added that there were no casualties in the attack, which took place shortly after midnight.

Wednesday’s attack comes almost a week after Syrian state media reported a similar Israeli missile strike on an area south of the capital, Damascus. An Israeli army spokesman declined to comment on the attack.

This is the third Israeli air strike on Syria this month, when it hit anti-aircraft batteries on February 9, in response to which it said it was a missile fired from Syria, and fired several surface to surface missiles targeting sites south of Damascus on February 17.

Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks on targets inside Syrian government-controlled areas during the last decade of the Syrian war, but its government rarely acknowledges or talks about such actions. Israel, whose attacks have targeted government positions as well as Iranian-backed forces and fighters from the armed Shiite movement Hezbollah, has said it wants to prevent Iran from stepping into Syria.

Israel occupied the Golan Heights from Syria in the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War and later annexed the area.

Most of the world does not recognize the occupation, although the U.S government, led by Donald Trump, has declared the area part of Israel.

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