Jerusalem, Nov 20 (TIWN) Responding to the rockets fired by an Iranian unit, Israel on Wednesday attacked "dozens" of sites belonging to the Iranian Quds Forces and the Syrian army in "wide-scale" air strikes near Damascus and in southwest Syria, the Israeli military said.

The military said its fighter jets hit multiple targets belonging to the elite Quds force, including surface-to-air missiles, weapons warehouses and military bases. After the Syrian military fired an air defense missile, the military said a number of Syrian aerial defense batteries were destroyed.  Syria’s SANA news agency said the two people were killed by shrapnel when an Israeli missile hit a house in the town of Saasaa, southwest of Damascus.