The Syrian authorities announced that Israel had launched a new raid that left civilians dead and wounded.

The Syrian News Agency reported that the Israeli forces launched “an air attack from the direction of Lebanese territory, targeting a site in the central region and a residential building in the city of Baniyas in the coastal region.”

The official Syrian agency added that the raid led to the death of a girl, the wounding of 10 civilians, and some material losses.

The Israeli side has not commented on the matter yet.

During the past years, Syria has been subjected to raids that Damascus says are launched by Israel from time to time on various targets in the country.

Israel admitted earlier that it had already launched attacks in Syria, and said that “their aim was to undermine Iranian attempts to install bases near it or to smuggle weapons into the region.”

The pace of these Israeli strikes has increased since the war broke out between the Hebrew state and Hamas in the Gaza Strip on the 7th of last October.