Two civilians killed in Israeli airstrike near Damascus

The ministry said in a statement that Israeli warplanes flying over neighboring Lebanon fired the missiles toward Syria. It added that Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles.

Israel did not comment on the attack and rarely acknowledges such operations. But it has launched hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria during its past decade of civil war.

The strike came two weeks after three Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli attack near Damascus.