DAMASCUS: An Israeli airstrike on Damascus, destroyed a building Saturday, official media outlets reported without giving details on casualties.
State-TV stated that the “Israeli aggression” targeted a residential compound in the western Damascus neighborhood of Mazzeh. The neighborhood is home to various diplomatic missions, including the Iranian and Lebanese embassies.
Reuters reported that the Israeli attack on Saturday had killed a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and injured others. According to the Reuters the multi-story building was used by Iranian and that it was completely flattened.
Israel Attack Hits Residential Building in Syria: State Media
Similarly, AFP reported that at least 5 were killed in the attack. Other local media in Syria stated explosions heard across Damascus. The attack comes amid widening tensions in the region and the Israeli attacks on Gaza that has killed thousands.
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Arab media reported that a strong explosion sounded in Damascus and smoke rise from area.
#BREAKING: A strong explosion sounded in #Damascus and smoke rise from area – #Syrian observatory https://t.co/I63xJsHXdr pic.twitter.com/vqzoGcqNJE
— Arab News (@arabnews) January 20, 2024
Last month, an Israeli attack on a suburb of Damascus killed Iranian general Seyed Razi Mousavi, a longtime adviser of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the country.
Israel has conducted hundreds of attacks on targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in last several years.
Israel rarely admits its actions in Syria, but it has said that it targets bases of Iran-backed militant groups, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Over the past several weeks, rockets have also been fired from Syria into northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, further adding to tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border and assaults on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group.
