Syrian air defenses have intercepted a number of Israeli missiles over the capital Damascus on Monday night, official news agency SANA reported.

Official SANA news agency, citing an unnamed military sources, said the air defenses late on Monday confronted an Israeli missile aggression that targeted the southern countryside of Damascus, shooting down most of the missiles.

“At exactly 11:18 p.m. this evening, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points south of the city of Damascus, and our air defense media confronted the aggression's missiles and shot down most of them," the military source said.

"The losses were limited to material damage," the source added.

Media reports said earlier that loud explosions had been heard in the area, with the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claiming that the airstrike had targeted sites in the southern Damascus countryside where Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement and Syrian air defense units are active.

The latest Israeli aggression came less than three weeks after at least three people were killed in the regime’s airstrikes on the outskirts of Damascus.