The Israeli military "launched an air attack, targeting two locations in the Kafr Sousa area in Damascus and a military facility near Homs", writes the regime-controlled news agency Sana.
A soldier was killed and seven people were injured in the attack, according to state media. The London-based Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR) reports that one person was killed in connection with the attack and three were injured.
A military facility in the city of Homs was also hit. In that attack, which targeted a truck, a soldier was killed and four others were injured, according to SOHR's information.
Since the civil war broke out in Syria, Israel has regularly attacked targets in the country, often without commenting on them.
Unusually strong statement
On Wednesday, Geir Pedersen, the UN's envoy for Syria, warned that the "heat from the conflict fires" raging in Gaza and Lebanon is already being felt in Syria – but that the situation could become even more serious.
In an unusually strongly worded statement, Pedersen urged the UN Security Council to closely monitor a potential spread of the conflict.
The past month has seen the fastest and most extensive campaign of Israeli air strikes in the past 13 years, said Geir Pedersen.
New Russian air strikes
Moreover, the regional escalation appears to be catalyzing the country's internal conflict, according to Pedersen, while Russia – which supports the Syrian government – has resumed air strikes for the first time in a long time.
Israeli attacks on the road between Beirut and Damascus have hindered fleeing civilians and "strangled a vital commercial artery between the countries", according to Geir Pedersen.
We see all the ingredients for a military, humanitarian, and economic storm breaking out over an already devastated Syria, said Pedersen.
