Israeli jets carried out on Wednesday an airstrike against a position in a rural area near the Syrian capital Damascus. The strike were carried out from Lebanon’s airspace, said a statement from the Syrian regime forces. The attack took place at 03:42 am local time, it said, while revealing that Syria’s air defense system had destroyed most of the Israeli missiles. It did not however give details of any damage or casualties In Jerusalem, an Israeli military spokeswoman said: “We do not respond to such reports.” The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syria war through activists on the ground, said the airstrike targeted positions of regime forces and their allies in the area of Jamraya, northwest of Damascus. The area is home to a regime research center that was also hit in December. Wednesdays report was the second such accusation in less than a month. The regime forces on January 9 accused Israel of launching missiles targeting military outposts in the area of Qutayfeh, in the Damascus countryside. The forces said that attack caused material damage. The Israeli air force has said it has struck arms convoys of the regime and its ally Lebanon’s “Hezbollah” nearly 100 times since the war in Syria began more than six years ago. It has grown deeply alarmed by Iran’s expanding clout during the conflict, and has warned it would act against any threat from Tehran.