Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that Israeli warplanes launched an assault from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights against a site in the vicinity of Damascus at around 10:50 p.m. local time (1950 GMT) on Thursday.

The source added that the attack resulted in the injury of eight soldiers, and caused material losses in the targeted area.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that explosions were heard in the southwestern countryside of Damascus, precisely along the administrative boundary shared with Syria’s southwestern province of Quneitra and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

According to the Britain-based war monitor, the explosions were accompanied by the flight of suspected Israeli drones.

The Israeli airstrike against the crisis-hit Arab nation comes amid the regime’s bloody onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Israel has launched relentless air and ground attacks on the coastal territory, including hospitals, residences, and houses of worship, since Palestinian resistance movements launched their surprise attack, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm, against the regime on October 7.

At least 34,596 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed while another 77,816 individuals have sustained injuries.

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 cowardly 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.

In violation of international laws and Syrian sovereignty, the Zionist terrorist group launched a missile attack on a residential neighborhood in the suburbs of Damascus, and a military advisor of the Islamic Republic of Iran was martyred, the embassy wrote on X.

IRGC military advisor Saeed Alidadi was martyred during the Israeli regime’s airstrikes on Syria on Friday.

Syrian military sources on Friday reported that the Israeli regime has targeted areas in southern Damascus from the occupied Golan.

The Syrian air defense systems managed to down several Israeli missiles, the sources added.

Back in January, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed the martyrdom of several of its advisory forces in an Israeli strike on Syria.

The Iranian advisors, who are present in Syria at the official invitation of the Syrian government, have played an important role in helping the Syrians fight terrorism and help establish peace, stability, and lasting security in this country.

In a statement on Sunday, Islamic Jihad confirmed that Khaled Mansour, its commander in the south of the Gaza Strip, had been killed in an Israeli raid on Saturday, Al Jazeera reported.

Mansour is the second high-ranking member of Islamic Jihad to be killed since Israel began attacking Gaza on Friday, when it assassinated the group’s commander in the north, Taysir al-Jabari.

The Zionist regime’s army launched brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip on Friday evening, killing a number of Palestinians.

The Islamic Jihad has fired more than 100 rockets toward the occupied territories after the Israeli regime assassinated one of the Palestinian resistance movement’s senior commanders during a massacre.

The movement called the retaliatory barrage only an “initial response” to the Israeli bloodbath that killed a number of Palestinians in the city of Rafah which is located in the southern part of the Tel Aviv-blockaded Gaza Strip.

The latest deaths bring the tally of children killed since Friday to six, and the total death toll among Palestinians to 24. At least 204 others have also been wounded, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The violence has raised fears of another war on Gaza by Israel, just 15 months after a month-long conflict that killed more than 260 people.