A picture taken from an AFP video shows what appears to be smoke billowing over buildings near the Syrian capital Damascus after a reported Israeli air strike overnight on July 1, 2019. The Syrian defense ministry said that AMMAN Israel targeted a series of air bases in the central region of Syria in a raid early on Sunday, while Western intelligence sources said the strikes hit a series of air bases in the central region of the country where Iranian personnel are based.
The Israeli military has not commented on the report of the latest strike in Syria, the third since Thursday and only a day after another attack on Friday that killed an officer in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the Guards said.
Israel launched an aerial attack from northwest Beirut in order to target some outposts in Homs city and its countryside at 00: 35 am, the Syrian defense ministry said in a statement on state media.
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Two Western intelligence sources who requested anonymity said the rocket strikes targeted the T 4 air base west of the ancient city of Palmyra and al Dabaa airport near the Lebanese border, an area with members of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
Iranian military personnel and fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah are stationed at both airports and there is a strong presence of pro-Iranian militias in that area of Homs province, the sources said.
A Syrian military source said on state media that the strikes caused material damage to five military personnel, and caused some material damage.
Israel has intensified strikes on Syrian airports and air bases in the last year to disrupt what it says is Iran's use of aerial supply lines to deliver arms to militias.