The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement on the 22nd, the southern Negev area in the early hours of the same day by a surface-to-air missile from Syria, in response, the Israeli army hit a number of Syrian military targets.
The statement said Israel’s air defense system was activated by missiles entering Israeli airspace. Israeli media reported that early in the morning, the southern city, the country’s nuclear reactor site Dimona city sounded the alarm. The Syrian missile was intercepted by an Israeli air defence system, causing no casualties or damage to facilities.
In response to the Syrian attack, Israeli forces carried out air strikes on a number of surface-to-air missile positions in Syria that day, including those that fired missiles that day, the military statement said.
After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, the Israeli army repeatedly to strike Iranian military facilities as a reason for air strikes on targets in Syria. Both the Syrian and Iranian governments deny that Iran has a military presence in Syria.
