Syria says Israeli drone attack kills civilian near Golan
An Israeli drone fired a missile at a car in
southern Syria on Thursday, killing one person, Syrian state TV reported.
The state-run media outlet gave no further details
on the attack near the southern village of Hader in the Quneitra region on the
edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. It said the person killed was a
civilian.
There was no immediate comment from Israel about the
drone attack.
Israel has repeatedly struck Iran-linked targets in
Syria in recent years and has warned against any permanent Iranian presence on
the frontier.
A Syrian military statement reported this week an
Israeli attack near Damascus International Airport and said its air defenses
confronted Israeli rockets coming from the direction of the Israeli-occupied
Golan Heights. It said the defenders intercepted or shot down most of them.
In a rare acknowledgment of operations in
neighboring Syria, Israel said its warplanes attacked targets late Sunday of
the Palestinian militant Islamic Jihad group south of Damascus, in addition to
sites in the Gaza Strip.
It said the sites attacked were used for “research
and development of armaments” manufactured in Syria and the Gaza Strip. It said
the sites also produce dozens of kilograms (pounds) of rocket fuel each month.
