An Israeli missile strike has caused a large explosion and fire at a military site near Damascus international airport in Syria. The Sana news agency said, a fuel tank and warehouses were damaged. But Syrian rebel sources said an arms depot run by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, which is fighting in Syria as an ally of the government, was hit.<br/><br/>Israel said the explosion was consistent with its policy to prevent Iran smuggling weapons to Hezbollah. Israel regards Hezbollah, and its key backer Iran, as its biggest threat. It went to war with Hezbollah in 2006 and the group has grown considerably more powerful since then.<br/><br/>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said the powerful blast was heard across the capital at dawn today and that it happened near the main road that leads to the airport.

In Syria, Israeli air strikes hit an arms supply hub operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus airport where regular supplies of weapons from Tehran are sent by commercial and military cargo planes. <br/><br/>The source said the arms depot gets a major part of the weapons supplied to an array of Iranian backed militias, led by Hezbollah, which have thousands of fighters engaged in some of the toughest fronts against Syrian rebels. <br/><br/>Witnesses said a total of five strikes occurred near the Damascus airport road early today. The airport lies about 25 kilometers south-east of Syria's capital. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the blast was huge and could be heard in Damascus. The blast was reportedly followed by a large fire. There is no word on casualties.

In Syria, an Israel strike hit an arms supply hub operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus airport where regular supplies of weapons from Tehran are sent by commercial and military cargo planes. <br/><br/>The source said the arms depot gets a major part of the weapons supplied to an array of Iranian backed militias, led by Hezbollah, which have thousands of fighters engaged in some of the toughest fronts against Syrian rebels. <br/><br/>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the blast was huge and could be heard in Damascus. <br/><br/>The airport lies about 25 kilometers south-east of Syria's capital. The blast was reportedly followed by a large fire. There is no word on casualties.