Israel launched airstrikes against targets near the Syrian city of Homs during the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning, Syrian state media reported.
Syrian air defenses responded to the attack in the central part of the country, the SANA state broadcaster said.
The report claimed the airstrike injured three civilians and ignited several fires.
There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
While Israel’s military as a rule does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, it has acknowledged conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country, over the last decade.
The IDF says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.
There have been a number of alleged strikes in recent weeks.
On Monday, the IDF shelled a site in southern Syria, just across the border from the Golan Heights, according to Syrian media reports.
Shortly after the strike, the IDF reportedly dropped threatening pamphlets in the area, warning Syrian soldiers to stop cooperating with Hezbollah.
A similar incident reportedly occurred days before.
The IDF has repeatedly accused the Syrian military of actively assisting Hezbollah and warned it against this, both through flyers dropped along the border and through overt, public appeals.
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