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Al Jazeera: Syrian air defence repels Israeli attack in south: State media
Air defence systems thwart Israeli air raid, state media reports, hours after blast rocks capital, Damascus.
Syrian military air defences thwarted an Israeli attack on Sunday, shooting down several missiles in the south of the country, state media said.
"Our air defence systems thwarted ... an Israeli air aggression ... and prevented it from achieving any of its goals," a military source told state news agency SANA. It gave no further details.
An Israeli military spokesperson declined to comment on the report.
Shortly after the incident, Israel's military said its Iron Dome missile defence system shot down a rocket that had been fired at the northern part of the occupied Golan Heights on the Syria frontier on Sunday.
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WNU Editor: At the same time of this attack a huge explosion occurred in Damascus near an intelligence building .... Syria: 'Huge explosion' rocks Damascus (DW).
