ISRAELI air strikes hit several sites in Syria’s Homs province early on Sunday, wounding five soldiers, Syrian state media reported.

This comes as the Israeli government continues to face protests at home over its plans to overhaul the country’s legal system.

In Iran, state media reported that an Iranian adviser who was wounded in an Israeli strike on Friday had died of his wounds. 

Yesterday’s strike is the ninth time Israel has struck targets in Syria since the beginning of the year, according to opposition-linked war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

State news agency SANA said sites in the city of Homs and surrounding countryside were targeted. 

SOHR reported that the missiles were aimed at Syrian military sites and those of Iran-linked militias, including a research centre.

There was no immediate statement from Israel on the strikes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “We are exacting a high price from the regimes that support terror outside Israel’s borders.”

Mr Netanyahu said that a major domestic crisis over his government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary has not affected Israel’s military capabilities.

“The internal argument in Israel doesn’t harm and won’t harm our determination or intensity or our capabilities to act against our enemies on all fronts, in any place and at any time necessary,” he said.

Reservists have pledged not to report for duty if the judicial overhaul moves forward, prompting defence officials to warn Israel’s military power may be affected. 

Regardless of Mr Netanyahu’s announcement last week that he was pausing the controversial plans in a bid to seek a compromise with political opponents, saying he wanted “to avoid civil war,” tens of thousands of Israelis still mounted protests on Saturday.

Demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv for the 13th weekly demonstration, raising Israeli flags and banners against what they said were plans to weaken the Supreme Court. 

The proposal has plunged Israel into its worst domestic crisis in decades. 

It would give Mr Netanyahu, who is on trial on corruption charges, and his allies final say in appointing the nation’s judges. 

It would also give the ultra right-wing-controlled parliament authority to overturn Supreme Court decisions and limit the court’s ability to review laws.

Mr Netanyahu’s opponents say the package would damage the country’s system of checks and balances. 

They also say that the prime minister has a conflict of interest as a criminal defendant.