War In Syria: Israel Targets Assad Forces, Hezbollah From Lebanon Following ISIS Clashes

Despite claiming neutrality in the ongoing conflict, Israeli warplanes bombed Syrian army weapons supply caches headed for Hezbollah in western Damascus Wednesday, Haaretz reported.

Syrian state media confirmed that Israeli jets fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace and struck Damascus' al-Sabboura region, calling it "an attempt to divert attention from the successes achieved by the Syrian Arab army." The missiles hit a weapons cache belonging to the Syrian army's Fourth Division and an arms convoy traveling on the Beirut-Damascus Highway. The arsenal was heavily damaged, but no human casualties were reported.

Both targets were reportedly supplying weapons to Hezbollah, a powerful, Iranian-backed Shiite paramilitary movement based in Lebanon and headed by influential cleric Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

The group, considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the U.S. and a number of European and Gulf countries, was formed in 1982 in resistance to Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. Hezbollah was crucial to the coalition of Lebanese forces that repelled Israel and its allies from Lebanese territory in 2000 and once again fought with Israel in 2006, resulting in another Israeli withdrawal after both sides sustained hundreds of casualties. The two sides routinely engage in violent border skirmishes.