Israeli warplanes yesterday hit arms depots near the Syrian capital Damascus, a monitoring group reported. The planes fired at least six rockets on the depots - which were in the area of Qutaifa, north-east of Damascus - Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told dpa.It was not immediately clear if the targeted sites belong to the Bashar al-Assad forces or its allied Lebanese Hezbollah movement, he added. There was no official comment in Damascus or Tel Aviv. The reported airstrike resulted in successive explosions in Qutaifa, around 45 kilometers north east of Damascus, local sources said without reporting casualties.A Lebanese security official, who requested anonymity, told DPA news agency that the raid targeted an arms shipment for Hezbollah. Pro-Iran Hezbollah has been fighting alongside Assad forces since the civil war started in Syria in 2011. In January, the Syrian government accused Israel of mounting an air attack on the Mezzeh airbase west of Damascus. Israel rarely comments on such reports.