Early on Friday morning, Israeli missiles struck multiple targets south of the Syrian capital and caused the closure of Damascus International Airport.

Syrian state television reported that jets from Damascus had been diverted to Aleppo airport due to an Israeli attack on an alleged Hezbollah location that injured one civilian.

SANA, the Syrian state news agency, reported that all flights from Damascus airport have been suspended due to "technical."

Following official media's confirmation of Israeli strikes around Damascus, pro-regime publication Al-Watan reported that a runway was damaged.

"At 4:20 a.m. (01:20 GMT)," SANA said earlier in the day, "the Israeli enemy launched a barrage of missiles from the occupied Golan Heights in an act of aerial aggression."

SANA reported that Syrian air defenses intercepted most of the missiles, but those that reached their objective injured at least one person and inflicted material damage.

The Syrian regime's media routinely asserts that its defenses have intercepted Israeli missiles, but such claims cannot be independently confirmed.

According to analysts, Syrian air defenses have been ineffectual against Israeli airstrikes, and Russia typically instructs the forces to disengage.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in the United Kingdom, near Damascus airport, Israeli airstrikes targeted arms stockpiles belonging to Hezbollah and other Iran-backed forces.

According to the observer, who depends on a vast network of informants across Syria, at least three such positions were struck, resulting in several casualties.

Since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011, following the regime's violent suppression of peaceful protests, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes against its neighbor.

It has predominantly targeted Iranian-backed allies, Hezbollah militants, and some Syrian regime locations.

While Israel rarely talks about specific strikes, it has admitted to conducting hundreds.

According to the Israeli military, the operations are required to prevent its archenemy Iran from establishing a foothold on its borders.

The war has killed almost half a million people and displaced roughly half of the country's pre-war population, primarily as a result of bombing and shelling by the regime.