Damascus: Israeli warplanes fired several missiles toward central Syria early Friday, killing a family of four - including two children - and wounding four others, state media reported.
State news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying the attack took place shortly before dawn when Israeli warplanes flew over neighbouring Lebanon.
The Israeli prime minister’s office on Friday declined to comment on the reports. Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years. But it rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
The Syrian military official said the attack was aimed at several targets in and near the central province of Hama. It added that Syrian air defence units shot down most of the missiles.
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State TV said the family killed had been displaced by Syria’s nearly 10-year conflict.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor that tracks Syria’s war, said the strikes targeted five posts for Iran-backed fighters based within Syrian army positions.
It said the posts were destroyed adding that parts of one of the air defence missiles fell on a residential area causing the deaths and injuries among civilians.
