Syria’s official SANA news agency reports that initial Israeli drone 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 the eight soldiers killed the day before and to “destroy some of the (surveillance) systems by targeting them with the appropriate weapons,” SANA says.
The report comes after SANA said reported more Israeli strikes and an airdrop commando raid in the area, “the details of which are not known.”
A unit of the Israeli army conducted an airborne landing on a strategic hilltop southwest of Damascus and carried out a two-hour operation before leaving the area, two Syrian army sources says.
They say the troops landed near Jabal Manea, which was once a major air defense base operated by Iran before being destroyed by Israel prior to the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
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