Israeli missiles have killed at least 14 people in central Syria, state media outlets have reported.

The attack on Sunday night sparked a fire and caused material damage near the city of Masyaf, in Hama province, according to SANA, Syria’s official news agency. The update, which also reported 43 injured, raises the toll of five dead and 19 wounded reported earlier.

“At around 23:20 on Sunday evening, the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of northwestern Lebanon, targeting a number of military sites in the central region [of Syria],” a military source told the SANA news agency.

“Our air defence systems confronted the aggression’s missiles and shot down some of them,” the source added, without providing further details.

The Israeli military commonly does not comment on its operations in Syria.

A local health official quoted by SANA said 43 people had been injured, including several critically, in the strikes.

The director of the public hospital in Masyaf said the casualties were civilians.

(Source: Al Jazeera)