Syrian state media says IDF first launched strikes on troops who found 'eavesdropping devices'

Syria’s official SANA news agency reports that initial Israeli drone strikes on Tuesday had targeted soldiers who, while on patrol, discovered “surveillance and eavesdropping devices.”

Ongoing strikes prevented other troops from reaching the area until the following evening. Other soldiers were able to retrieve the bodies of the eight soldiers killed the day before and to “destroy some of the (surveillance) systems by targeting them with the appropriate weapons,” SANA says.

The report comes after SANA said reported more Israeli strikes and an airdrop commando raid in the area, “the details of which are not known.”

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.