Israel launched strikes on southern Syria late Saturday, a monitoring group said, prompting air defenses into action for the second night in a row.
"Israeli airplanes fired at least three missiles from the occupied Golan," said Rami Abdel-Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Two of the strikes targeted a Syrian army brigade which supervises the country's Qunaitra province, he told AFP, while the third missile was destroyed by Syrian defenses.
Syria's official SANA news agency reported "foreign objects coming from the occupied territories [Israel]" which Syrian air defenses were "dealing with."
The Israeli military did not comment on the reported strikes when approached by AFP.
The strikes come a day after Syrian air defense systems intercepted projectiles coming from Israel, SANA reported.
The "hostile targets" were fired late Friday towards Qunaitra province which lies close to the Golan Heights, parts of which are annexed by Israel.
Hundreds of strikes have been carried out by Israel in Syria, most of them against what it says are Iranian and Hezbollah targets.
Israel says it is determined to prevent its arch foe Iran from entrenching itself militarily in Syria, where Tehran backs President Bashar Assad in the country's eight-year war.
Israel insists that it has the right to continue to target positions in Syria held by Iran and Hezbollah.
Agence France Presse
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