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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Syrian air defense systems intercept Israeli rockets over Damascus</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">February 9, 2024<br></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><p>Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Syria confirmed sounds of an explosion over the western Damascus countryside</p><img src="cid:ii_lsf2fm4o0" alt="479449d3-4022-4db5-ae01-b5f7566bc13e.jpg" width="391" height="260"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
A photo released by Syrian official news agency SANA shows
Syrian security forces and civil defense workers searching for victims
under the rubble of a building that was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes,
in Homs, Syria, late Tuesday, February 6, 2024. (<em>AP</em>)
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<p><em>SANA</em> agency reported that<a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/latestnews/2024/2/6/al-mayadeen-s-correspondent--syrian-air-defenses-repelling-a"> Syrian air defense </a>systems intercepted Israeli strikes in the vicinity of the Syrian capital, Damascus, today afternoon.</p>
<p><strong>Al Mayadeen</strong> 's correspondent in Syria confirmed sounds of an explosion in the airspace of the western Damascus countryside.</p>
<p>Syria's Defense Minister confirmed earlier on Wednesday that <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/several-killed--injured-in-israeli-aggression-on-homs--syria">several civilians were killed and some were injured in an Israeli missile attack</a> on Homs province.</p>
<p>"Today at approximately 00:30 [21:30 GMT on Tuesday], the Israeli
enemy launched an air aggression from a direction north of Tripoli [in
Lebanon], striking a number of positions in the city of Homs and [Homs]
province," the Ministry said in a statement.</p>
<p>"Our air defenses responded to the enemy's missiles and shot some of
them down. As a result of the aggression, several civilians were killed
and wounded, and public and private property was damaged," it added.</p>
<p>This attack resulted in the martyrdom of seven Syrians and the injury of 13 others. </p>
<h2>'Israel' murders IRGC advisor in Syria</h2>
<p><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--kills-irgc-advisor-in-strike-on-south-damascus--syr">A military advisor of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC)</a> was martyred in an Israeli aggression targeting southern Damascus in the early hours of February 2, Iranian media reported.</p>
<p>Israeli airstrikes were launched from over the occupied Golan Heights
against a target south of the capital, according to a Syrian military
source, leading to the martyrdom of IRGC advisor to Syria Saeid Ali
Dadi.</p>
<p>The source stated that Syrian air defense systems intercepted a number of Israeli missiles during the aggression.</p>
<p>This comes less than one month after an Israeli strike on a building
in the suburbs of Damascus resulted in the martyrdom of the IRGC's
intelligence advisor in Syria Hojjatollah Omidvar, his assistant, and 3
other members of the group.</p>
<p>Another senior IRGC commander, Seyyed Razi Mousavi, was killed along
with several of his companions in an Israeli strike on their position in
December last year.</p></div></div></div>
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