BEIRUT — Israeli airstrikes hit a number of websites in Syria‘s Homs province early Sunday, wounding 5 troopers, Syrian state media reported.

It marked the ninth time Israel has struck targets in Syria because the starting of the yr, in line with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked warfare monitor.

State information company SANA, citing army sources, mentioned the strikes had focused websites within the metropolis of Homs and surrounding countryside. Syrian air defenses intercepted the missiles and shot down a few of them, it mentioned.

The observatory reported that the missiles focused Syrian army websites and people of Iran-linked militias, together with a analysis heart.

There was no fast assertion from Israel on the strikes.

Israel has carried out a whole bunch of strikes on targets inside government-controlled elements of Syria in recent times, together with assaults on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, however it hardly ever acknowledges particular operations.

Israel says it targets bases of Iran-allied militant teams, similar to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has despatched 1000’s of fighters to assist Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.

On Friday, Israeli airstrikes hit the suburbs of Syria’s capital metropolis, Damascus, killing an Iranian adviser, the state media of Syria and Iran reported.

Iran’s state tv reported Friday that Milad Heidari, an Iranian army adviser, was killed throughout what it known as a “felony strike” by Israel.

An Israeli airstrike final month focusing on the airport in Aleppo put it out of fee for 2 days. The airport has been a primary conduit for support shipments because the lethal 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey on Feb. 6.

Israel has additionally struck seaports in government-held areas of Syria, in an obvious try to stop Iranian arms shipments to militant teams backed by Tehran, together with Hezbollah.