Israel launched a surface-to-surface missile attack on a Syrian town near the armistice line on the Golan Heights early Wednesday, state television claimed, with no immediate indication of injuries.

Israel has struck targets inside Syria three times this month as part of a bombing campaign against pro-Iranian troops supporting the Damascus government in Syria's more than decade-old civil war.

"The Israeli enemy carried out a strike with several ground-to-ground missiles" against the town of Quneitra in the UN-monitored buffer zone at approximately 12:30 a.m. (2230 GMT Tuesday), the official SANA news agency reported, citing a military source.

It stated that the hit caused material damage but provided no other information.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, headquartered in the United Kingdom, reported numerous explosions in Quneitra "following Israeli strikes on military posts" along the armistice line.

Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, Israel launched hundreds of air attacks against government targets, Iran-backed troops, and Hezbollah soldiers.

Israel seldom speaks on specific operations but has repeatedly threatened to prevent Iran's arch-foe from establishing a foothold in Syria.

Israeli artillery in the occupied Golan shelled the village of Zakiya, south of Damascus, on 17 February. In response to a missile fired into Israel, Israeli jets and artillery launched strikes against Syrian anti-aircraft sites on 9 February.