Israel's defense minister said Thursday its forces were operating in "all combat zones,” after Syrian state media reported a raid by Israeli ground troops on a site it had already bombed outside Damascus.
"Our forces are operating in all combat zones day and night for the security of Israel," Israel Katz said on X, without elaborating.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military declined to comment.
Syria's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that drone strikes Tuesday in the southern Damascus suburb of Kiswah killed eight soldiers. It called the attack “a grave violation of international law” and “clear breach of (Syria's) sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Late Wednesday evening, Syrian state news agency SANA reported more Israeli strikes and an airdrop commando raid in the area, “the details of which are not known.”
SANA reported that the initial strikes on Tuesday had targeted soldiers who, while on patrol, discovered “surveillance and eavesdropping devices."
Ongoing strikes prevented other troops from reaching the area until the following evening. Other soldiers were able to retrieve the bodies of those killed the day before and to “destroy some of the (surveillance) systems by targeting them with the appropriate weapons,” it said.
