terrified nearby residents to run for cover. this family lives a little over a mile away. daughter anna tells me what happened. after the first two bombs, we kept hearing explosions. there were like nine of them, because everything kept exploding over and over again. we can hear gunshots, we can hear people screaming. so, basically, we didn t know what to do. reporter: in the second alleged israeli air strike in three days the syrian government says the latest target was a military research facility. the opposition says it was an ammunition depot. in an exclusive interview with cnn, syria s deputy foreign minister said syria would retaliate at its own time and way. this is an alliance, i mean, between al qaeda and israel attacking together syria. it shows common interests. and what israel and its allies have tried to hide for a long
forces with al qaeda. more from cnn s fred polierik pleitgen in damascus. reporter: it s absolute mayhem in damascus. we were woken up in the middle of the night for massive explosions that went on for more than an hour, and there was so much explosions, so much gunfire, that people that live near that area actually thought there was a major battle going on there until they found out that it was probably a rocket strike by the israelis. it was at around 3:00 a.m. local time that gigantic explosions lit up the skies over damascus. one deafening blast after another, it went on for more than an hour, rocking a large military area in the suburbs of syria s capital and prompting terrified nearby residents to run for cover. this family lives a little over a mile away. daughter anna tells me what happened. after the first two bombs, we kept hearing explosions. there were like nine of them, because everything kept
military area in the suburbs of syria s capital and prompting terrified nearby residents to run for cover. this family lives a little over a mile away. daughter anna tells me what happened. after the first two bombs, we kept hearing explosions. there were like nine of them, because everything kept exploding over and over again. we can hear gunshots, we can hear people screaming. so, basically, we didn t know what to do. reporter: in the second alleged israeli air strike in three days the syrian government says the latest target was a military research facility. the opposition says it was an ammunition depot. in an exclusive interview with cnn, syria s deputy foreign minister said syria would retaliate at its own time and way. this is an alliance, i mean, between al qaeda and israel attacking together syria. it shows common interests.