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Two regional intelligence sources said a major military research
centre for chemical arms production located near Misyaf had been
hit several times. It is believed to house a team of Iranian
military experts involved in weapons production.
There was no immediate comment from Israel, which typically does
not comment on specific reports of strikes in Syria.
Since the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians and
soldiers, Israel has escalated its strikes on Iranian-backed
militia targets in Syria and has also struck Syrian army air
defences and some Syrian forces.
"At around 23:20 on Sunday evening, the Israeli enemy launched
an air aggression from the direction of northwestern Lebanon,
targeting a number of military sites in the central region (of
Syria)," a military source told the SANA news agency.
"Our air defence systems confronted the aggression's missiles
and shot down some of them," the source added, without providing
further details.
A local health official quoted by SANA said 43 people had been
injured, including several critically, in the strikes.
Syria's state media also reported that the strikes caused two
fires, which firefighters were working to extinguish.
In the most high-profile attack on Syria since the war in Gaza
began, suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's embassy in
April, a strike that Iran said killed seven military advisers,
including three senior commanders.
(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi in Amman and Ahmed Tolba and
Adam Makary in CairoWriting by Hatem MaherEditing by Michael
Georgy and Gareth Jones)
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