Israeli planes bomb Syrian targets-Syrian agency

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DAMASCUS, Sep 6 (Reuters) Israeli warplanes bombed unidentified Syrian targets early today, causing no damage or casualties, the official Syrian news agency said.

Syrian air defences fired at the incoming planes, which crossed into Syria after midnight local time, the agency said.

''The Syrian Arab Republic warns the government of the Israeli enemy and reserves the right to respond according to what it sees fit,'' the agency said.

The Israeli military declined to comment on the air strike.

Israel has long warned Syria to stop supporing militant Palestinian groups and the Lebanese movement Hezbollah.

Witnesses said they heard the sound of five planes or more above Tal al-Abiad area on Syria's border with Turkey, around 160 km (100) miles north of the Syrian city of Rakka. They said the planes then headed south.

Syria last said it fired at Israeli warplanes in June 2006, when Israeli aircraft buzzed the summer residence of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Israeli officials said at the time, the flyover was a message to cease support for Hamas after the Palestinian militant group abducted an Israeli soldier in a raid into Israel from the Gaza Strip.

REUTERS JK BST1752

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