The airstrike, initiated from the occupied Golan Heights and directed towards a site near Damascus, resulted in material damage, according to a statement by the Syrian ministry.

DAMASCUS -- Israel launched an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights on Thursday night against a military site near Syrian capital Damascus, injuring eight soldiers and causing material losses, the Syrian Defense Ministry said.

An Israeli strike hit a building operated by Syrian security forces on the outskirts of Damascus late on Thursday, a security source in the alliance backing Syria's government told Reuters.

An Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus injured eight Syrian military personnel late on Thursday, the Syrian defense ministry said, the latest such attack amid the war in Gaza.

Syria’s defence ministry says eight soldiers have been injured in Israeli air strikes near Damascus. On Thursday night, “the Israeli enemy launched air strikes from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a site near Damascus... injuring eight soldiers,” the ministry said in a statement.

Israeli airstrikes near Damascus injured eight Syrian soldiers, following a pattern of strikes aimed at thwarting Iran's influence in Syria. The attacks escalated after Israel's conflict with Hamas in Gaza.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group, noted that the strike hit a government facility in the Damascus countryside, which has been utilized by the Lebanese group Hezbollah since 2014.