Syrian state media reported on Wednesday that an airstrike on a residential constructing in Damascus had killed two folks, and mentioned that Israel was answerable for the assault.
The Israeli army declined to touch upon the strike, which the Syrian authorities’s official SANA information company mentioned hit a constructing within the Kafr Sousa neighborhood simply after 9:30 a.m. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which displays the conflict in Syria, mentioned {that a} third person had been killed by shrapnel from the assault, which additionally broken surrounding buildings.
A strike final February in the identical neighborhood killed at least five people. On the time, a senior Western diplomat mentioned the strike was concentrating on Iranians close to a web site utilized by the Iranian army.
Whereas Israel didn’t touch upon the newest assault, it has acknowledged lots of of previous strikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria.
Israel, Iran and Iranian proxies akin to Syria have been waging a shadow conflict by air, land, sea and our on-line world for years. Iran helps and arms a community of proxy militias which were preventing with Israel, together with Hamas and different Palestinian teams.
The strikes and counter-strikes throughout the area have escalated within the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led assaults towards Israel. Final month, Iran accused Israel of launching an airstrike on the Syrian capital, Damascus, that killed senior Iranian army figures.
Cassandra Vinograd and Hwaida Saad contributed reporting.
