At least 11 people, mostly pro-Iranian operatives, were killed in an alleged Israeli raid in Syria, a war-monitoring group said Tuesday.
The attacks late on Monday targeted Syrian army positions southwest of Damascus and other sites belonging to pro-Iranian groups, including Hezbollah, in the southern province of Daraa.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahmane said three Syrian soldiers, seven pro-Iranian militia fighters and a civilian woman had been killed as a result of the strikes. The woman's husband is reported to have been wounded.
The state news agency SANA on Monday said Syrian air defenses had intercepted most of the Israeli missiles launched from the direction of the Golan Heights toward military sites south of Damascus.
An Israeli military spokesman said had declined to comment on the initial report by Syrian state media of an Israeli air strike.
Earlier this month Israeli aircraft attacked targets in Syria in what it described as retaliation for an attempted bombing of a fence along the Golan armistice line between the two countries by what Israel described as an enemy squad.
Israel has repeatedly attacked Iranian targets in Syria and those of allied militias, including Lebanon's Hezbollah. Israel sees Iran's presence in Syria, in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government in the country's civil war, as a strategic threat.