Syria says air defence downs Israeli missiles

DAMASCUS — Syrian air defence shot down Israeli missiles targeting the south of the country on Wednesday, state media said, as a monitor reported positions of the regime’s Lebanese ally Hizbollah had been hit.

The attack was launched in the early hours of the morning against the Tall Al Hara sector near the Golan Heights, according to official news agency SANA, which said there had been no casualties.

It did not specify what had been targeted.

SANA also accused Israel of conducting an “electronic war” and “jamming” Syrian radar.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the strikes had targeted positions of the Hizbollah Shiite movement in two locations, but without causing any casualties.

“All the positions hit had the Lebanese Hizbollah there,” observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.

The missiles targeted Tall Al Hara, a hill in the southern province of Daraa where Hizbollah has radars and the regime has air defence batteries, said the observatory.

It also targeted barracks for the Lebanese fighters in the abandoned town of Quneitra on the Syrian-controlled side of a demilitarised zone between both countries in the Golan.