ISRAEL launched another missile attack against Syria on Tuesday night, state media reported, with a number of rockets intercepted by air defence systems.

“At 22.35 (8.35pm GMT) this evening, the Israeli enemy carried out an aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights on some targets in the Damascus area,” a military source confirmed. 

“Our air defences intercepted the attack and shot down most of the missiles,” the source said, adding that there had been no casualties.

Explosions were heard above the capital and video footage appeared to show the rockets being shot down.

The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said that the air strikes had targeted two ammunition depots close to Damascus airport belonging to Iranian forces fighting alongside the Syrian government’s military.

Israel has launched repeated attacks on Syria, insisting it is targeting Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces, and admitted to 50 such assaults last year.

But missiles regularly hit civilians and infrastructure, and experts say that the Israeli attacks violate international law.

Tuesday’s air strikes were the first since an attack on February 28, which came after Israel had blamed Iran for an attack on one of its ships, the MV Helios Ray, in the Gulf of Oman.

Iran in turn blames Israel for a string of attacks on Iranian vessels that began in 2019. 

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said that Tel Aviv was taking action “almost weekly” against Iranian forces in Syria.

The latest attack was the eighth Israeli missile strike this year.

Last month, US President Joe Biden ordered missile strikes against what the Pentagon claimed were Iranian facilities in eastern Syria, killing at least 17 people.