Israel hit targets close to the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, injuring one soldier, the Syrian regime’s defence ministry said, in rare daylight strikes. “The Israeli enemy carried out airstrikes from the north of the occupied Palestinian territories targeting sites near Damascus,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that a soldier was injured during the rare daytime attack. Israel, which rarely comments on individual strikes but has acknowledged carrying out hundreds, usually launches airstrikes on Syria overnight. An AFP correspondent in Damascus heard loud noises as rockets fell ne…