15 killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus
Since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes against its neighbor, primarily targeting the positions of the Syrian army, Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah, allies of the Syrian regime.
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Israel continues its aggression against the Arab countries, as this morning it killed 15 people during an air raid on Syria.
A war observer said in the early hours of Sunday morning that an Israeli missile strike killed 15 people and destroyed a building in a Damascus neighborhood, belonging to many of the Syrian security services.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the strike, which targeted near an Iranian cultural center, killed 15 people, including civilians.
A military source admitted that "a number of residential buildings were destroyed", but reported that five people were killed, including a soldier. It added that 15 civilians were injured.
Israeli air strikes
Since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes against its neighbor, primarily targeting the positions of the Syrian army, Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah, allies of the Syrian regime. But it rarely hits the residential areas of the capital.
On Sunday, the raid targeted the town of Kafr Souseh, which is home to senior officials, security services and the intelligence headquarters.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, targeting several areas in and around Damascus, including residential neighborhoods.
Footage broadcast by state media showed that a 10-storey building was severely damaged in the attack, smashing the building's lower floors.
A bloody strike on the Syrian capital
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Observatory, which has an extensive network of sources inside Syria say that "Sunday's strike was the deadliest in an Israeli attack in the Syrian capital”.
The attack comes more than a month after an Israeli missile attack on Damascus International Airport, killing four people - including two soldiers.
Hezbollah websites
The Observatory said at the time that the strike hit "sites of Hezbollah and pro-Iranian groups inside and around the airport, including a weapons depot."
The Israeli army rarely comments on its strikes on Syria, but regularly stresses that it will not allow Iran to extend its influence to Israel's borders.
At the end of last year, the head of the IDF's Operations Directorate, Major General Oded Basiuk, presented the army's "operational forecast" for 2023, saying that the force "will not accept Hezbollah in Syria."
The latest blow comes as the Damascus government seeks to recover from the February 6 earthquake, which did not affect the capital but claimed more than 43,000 lives in the north of the country and southern Turkey.
