Syria's Air Defenses Repelling Israeli Missile Attack on Homs – Reports

CAIRO (Sputnik) - Syria's air defense forces are repelling an Israeli missile attack on Homs province, Syrian state broadcaster Al Akhbar reported on Wednesday.

The country's air defenses are shooting down some of the missiles fired, the report added.

Later in the day, the Syrian Defense Ministry Several civilians were killed and some injured in an Israeli missile attack on Homs province.

"Today at approximately 00:30 [21:30 GMT on Tuesday], the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from a direction north of Tripoli [in Lebanon], striking a number of positions in the city of Homs and [Homs] province. Our air defenses responded to the enemy's missiles and shot down some of them. As a result of the aggression, several civilians were killed and wounded, and public and private property was damaged," the Syrian Defense Ministry said in a statement.