The two Israeli officials said: Israeli army He carried out air strikes on a residential building nearby Iranian Embassy in DamascusIn an attempt to assassinate a high-ranking official in… Hezbollah Involved in smuggling arms.
According to the New York Times, citing Israeli officials, it was not clear whether the official targeted in the Israeli strike was in Syria Among the dead.
The Syrian News Agency confirmed that 7 people, including children and women, were killed and 11 others were injured as a result of the Israeli strike.
The agency quoted a military source as saying, “At approximately 8:15 pm today (Tuesday), the Israeli enemy launched an air attack with three missiles from the direction of Golan The Syrian army targeted a residential and commercial building in the neighbourhood Mezze densely populated area in Damascus.
The source added that the attack led to “the martyrdom of seven civilians, including children and women, and the wounding of eleven others as a preliminary toll, and the infliction of significant material damage to private property in the surrounding area.”
The source pointed out that “work is still continuing to rescue others from under the rubble.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the raid “targeted a building frequented by leaders.” Iranian Revolutionary Guard And Hezbollah,” and led to “the fall of 9 martyrs, including 5 civilians, including a child, 2 non-Syrians, and 2 unidentified people.”
Fars News Agency reported And the Iranian embassy In Beirut on Tuesday, “there are no Iranians among the dead.”
And intensified Israel In recent days, it has repeatedly targeted points near the border crossings linking Syria and Lebanon, through which tens of thousands have crossed over the past week to escape the heavy Israeli raids on Lebanon.
Israel rarely confirms the implementation of strikes, but it repeatedly confronts what it describes as Iran’s attempts to establish its military presence in Syria.
