2024-01-20T08:18:12+00:00
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/ The official Syrian news agency, SANA, reported this Saturday morning that an Israeli attack had occurred targeting a residential building in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
SANA said: “It is likely an Israeli attack targeting a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus.”
The agency quoted its correspondent as saying that an attack targeted a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus, “most likely resulting from Israeli aggression.”
However, reports indicate that a “huge explosion occurred in the Mezzeh neighborhood in central Damascus and reports that Israel targeted an important person.”
The agency did not mention the nature of the targeted residential building or the identity of its residents, nor did it mention any human or material losses.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in London, said: “An explosion sounded in Damascus,” but it did not reveal any other details about the cause of the explosion.
Sources later confirmed that the Israeli bombing of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Saturday morning, was carried out with 8 missiles.
A source in the pro-Syrian regional coalition said, in statements to Reuters, that a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was killed and others were injured in an Israeli raid on a building in Damascus on Saturday.
The source added that the multi-storey building was used by Iranian advisors supporting the Syrian government and that it was leveled.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the attack resulting from a raid left 5 dead.
According to the Observatory, a violent explosion occurred in the Mezzeh neighborhood, villas west of the capital, Damascus, next to the Al-Muhammadi Mosque, caused by an Israeli missile targeting a 4-story building, which led to the deaths of 5 according to an initial toll.
The targeting also led to the complete destruction of the building, which contained a meeting of leaders close to Iran.
The neighborhood is known as a security neighborhood and includes leaders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard militia and Palestinian leaders close to Iran.