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Israeli forces have struck targets near Damascus from their bases on the Golan Heights, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported early on Saturday, citing military sources. Large explosions were heard to the west of the Syrian capital. Syrian air defences had downed some of the incoming rockets, and only material damage had been caused, SANA reported. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that residential buildings to the west of Damascus had been hit, and that one person had been killed. On Friday evening, the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon claimed r…