A poster depicting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is seen at a damaged area in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Hama, Syria, on September 9, 2024.                     (Photo by Reuters)

Damascus, November 5 (RHC)-- Israeli military aircraft have carried out another act of aggression against Syria, targeting positions on the outskirts of the capital Damascus as the regime continues its airstrikes on the country alongside its bloody onslaughts in Gaza and Lebanon.

Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that Israeli warplanes launched an assault from the direction of occupied Golan Heights at around 5:18 p.m. local time (1418 GMT) on Monday, targeting a number of civilian sites in the southern flank of Damascus.  The source added that the attack caused material damage in the targeted area.

Footage published by several media outlets showed dense smoke rising in the Sayyida Zainab suburb.  Mehdi Mahfouz, a 34-year-old resident of the area, said he “heard three successive explosions, one of which was very strong.”  “Then I saw a large black cloud of smoke rising,” Mahfouz added.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported at least three strikes in the area.

Israel launched relentless air and ground attacks on Gaza, including hospitals, residences, and houses of worship, after Palestinian resistance movements launched their surprise attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, against the regime on October 7, 2023.

At least 43,374 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed while another 102,261 individuals have sustained injuries. 

According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, at least 2,986 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Arab country since October 2023, including 18 dead and 83 injured in the past 24 hours.

Israel frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.

The Tel Aviv regime rarely comments on its attacks on Syrian territories, which many see as a knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government’s phenomenal success in confronting and decimating terrorism.

Israel has been the principal supporter of terrorist groups that oppose the democratically-elected government of President Bashar al-Assad since the foreign-backed militancy erupted in Syria.