A human rights monitoring group claims that Israel has carried out further air assaults on Syrian targets where the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Lebanese Hezbollah are present.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a series of loud explosions were heard in Masyaf city in Syria’s western Hama province on Saturday night.

According to the Observatory, many missiles targeted the area where the Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah forces are based.

“Missiles and drones are being upgraded at warehouses and research centres. According to a statement from a UK-based monitoring organisation, “no casualties have been reported yet”.

Monitors say this was the 8th Israeli attack on Syrian sites this year, with a blast near Damascus International Airport in early March being the most recent.

An anonymous military official told the state-run news agency SANA that the “Israeli aerial attack” only caused “material” damage to Syria’s air defences.

“The Israeli enemy conducted an aerial attack from the north of Lebanon that targeted various areas in the centre region while the army air defences fought it and shot down a number of missiles,” SANA reported.

Israeli airstrikes against government-controlled targets in Syria number in the hundreds, but the country rarely admits or discusses these operations.

According to reports, Israel plans to strike the camps of Iranian-backed militias like Hezbollah, which has been fighting alongside Bashar al-forces Assad’s in Syria for a decade-long civil war.

An Iranian presence on Israel’s northern border justifies Israel’s attacks on Syrian targets.

During a rare attack on the war-torn country’s important port of Latakia in December, Israeli fighter jets launched missiles at the Syrian port. According to accounts, the airstrike damaged cargo containers but did not cause any casualties.

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