Syria said an Israeli missile targeted an area near Damascus late on Friday.
State media claimed the missiles were shot down over the capital and near the Israeli border.
“Our air defense systems intercepted an Israeli missile attack in the airspace of Damascus and the southern region,” Syria’s official news agency SANA said.
The alleged attack would be the first since Sept. 17, when five soldiers were killed in an apparent Israeli attack around the capital Damascus last month.
In June, Israeli airstrikes rendered Damascus airport out of service for nearly two weeks.
Two sorties targeting Aleppo airport in early September also forced the closure of that facility.
The alleged attack came a day after Israeli forces began a week-long training exercise in the north of the country.
Since the civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of attacks against its northern neighbor, targeting government forces, Iran-backed allied forces and Hezbollah fighters. , which regularly claims to have intercepted most Israeli missiles, analysts generally dismiss it as an empty boast.
Israel rarely commented on individual attacks, but acknowledged hundreds of them.
It claims it needs air power to prevent arch-enemy Iran from gaining a foothold.
The rare lull in the strike coincided with high-stakes negotiations to resolve a longstanding maritime dispute between Israel and Lebanon that ended in an agreement earlier this month. Temporarily increased tensions along the northern border with Hezbollah.
Earlier this week, a senior Israeli defense official and two senior Western diplomats told the New York Times that Russia had withdrawn its S-300 anti-aircraft system from Syria to step up its war effort against Syria. Syrian skies despite the collapse of relations with Moscow.
