Two people have been killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle traveling between Quneitra and Damascus, Syrian state media reported on Thursday.
A civilian vehicle was hit by a drone-launched missile at the eastern entrance to the town of Khan Arnaba on the Damascus-Quneitra road, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
One person was also injured by Israeli artillery shelling in the town of Al-Rafid in the country’s southwest, according to SANA.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based war monitor affiliated with Syria’s opposition, reported that a “military figure” was killed in the strike.
Quneitra in southern Syria is known as an area of significant Iranian activity.
Syrian state media reported on Monday that at least 14 people had been killed and 43 wounded, six critically, in a series of Israeli airstrikes in northwestern Syria late on Sunday.
Israel had targeted several military sites around Masyaf in the Hama countryside, according to SANA. According to Reuters, which cited two regional intelligence sources, among the sites hit was the Scientific Studies and Research Center, known as CERS or SSRC, a major military research center for chemical weapons. The center is believed to house a team of Iranian military experts, according to the report.
According to Israel, it is used by Iranian forces to manufacture precision surface-to-surface missiles.
Israel rarely admits to attacks on Syrian territory, although in February Jerusalem revealed that it had attacked more than 50 targets belonging to Hezbollah and other Iran-backed terror groups in Syria since Oct. 7.
