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Israeli airstrikes target military facilities near Damascus

Damascus, Feb. 8 (UNI) Israel carried out airstrikes on military sites in the countryside of Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, targeting facilities in the Deir Ali area, local media reported.
According to Sham FM, the attack struck a location near the capital, while the Israeli military claimed its aircraft had bombed a weapons depot belonging to Hamas in the same area. No casualties were immediately confirmed.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported that Israeli airstrikes hit storage facilities linked to the First Division and Brigade 166 in Al-Kiswah, southern Syria.
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