One Syrian soldier was killed and three others were injured in Israeli air strikes against military sites and a residential building in Damascus early on Sunday, the Syrian army said. 

 

The army said in a statement that the attacks were launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

 

Israeli strikes on Syria increased after the start of the war in Gaza last October.

Sunday's strikes targeted "a number of our military sites in the southern region and one of the residential buildings in the Kafar Souseh area in the city of Damascus," the Syrian army said in a statement.

 

"Our air defense systems confronted the enemy's missiles despite their density and shot down a considerable number of them."

 

Israel's army said its strikes were in response to the launch of two drones from Syria towards the north of Eilat on Saturday, which it said were intercepted.