The Israeli army claimed responsibility for airstrikes Monday targeting several locations south of the Syrian capital Damascus, saying it struck sites linked to the intelligence unit of the Lebanese Hezbollah group. Israel normally refrains from publicly acknowledging attacks on Syrian territory.

There were no immediate reports of casualties in the air strike, which Syria said hit a civilian area in the Sayeda Zeinab region south of the capital.

At least two people were killed, five were injured and damage was caused in an Israeli strike on an area south of Damascus late on Monday, according to the Syrian Foreign Ministry. Two members of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah militia were killed and five were seriously injured in Israeli strikes on a farm in the Sayyida Zeinab area in the Damascus countryside,

The Israeli Air Force claimed that it eliminated the intelligence chief of Hezbollah for Syria in Damascus, in a strike on key infrastructure

It was a rare acknowledgement by Israeli authorities of an attack against Syria. Israel's military said its air force struck the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah's Syrian branch in a strike on Damascus on Monday, an attack a war monitor said killed ...

Lebanon said Israel struck locations across the country on Tuesday, killing one person, as the Israeli military said it struck a Hezbollah weapons depot in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border.- Syria strike - Also on Tuesday,