At least five people have been killed and two others injured in a reported Israeli air strike within Syria on Sunday night, the state news agency reported. 

The strike — on the T-4 air base near Homs, where Israel has previously said Iranian-backed operatives are stationed — came a day after Syrian rocket fire towards the Golan Heights prompted a retaliatory Israeli air strike. 

"Our air defences thwarted an Israeli aggression and destroyed two of the rockets that targeted the T-4 airbase," the Syrian state news agency Sana said late on Sunday. 

The report added that the remaining rockets “killed one soldier, wounded two others, and damaged an arms warehouse.” 

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported five killed, including one Syrian soldier, adding that a rocket warehouse was destroyed. 

Israeli sources, which do not routinely acknowledge operations within Syria, made no comment on the latest strike.

However, it did acknowledge it had carried out earlier strikes in the province of Quneitra, saying it was in response to an unusual case of rocket fire from Syria late on Saturday. 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 were killed in that strike, including Syrian soldiers and foreign fighters in the attack south of the capital.