Israeli Strike in Damascus Kills Hezbollah Official Overseeing Golan Operations
An Israeli F-15 Eagle fighter jets flies over the northern city of Haifa on September 26, 2024. ©Photo by Jack Guez / AFP

An Israeli strike on Sunday south of Damascus targeted a Hezbollah apartment, killing nine people including Ali Moussa Daqdouq, a Hezbollah official responsible for the group’s operations in the Golan Heights.

Several Syrian media outlet, reported a toll of nine dead and twenty wounded in the strike. 

Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP earlier tthat "An Israeli air strike killed three people in the Sayyida Zeinab area" near Damascus.

"The Israeli attack targeted (Hezbollah) figures in the building," said the monitor which has a network of sources inside Syria.

It said that two locations "where Hezbollah members live" near the Sayyida Zeinab municipality were hit.

Syria's official SANA news agency reported an "Israeli aggression targeting a residential building in the Sayyida Zeinab" area that killed and injured an unspecified number of people.

On Saturday, four pro-Iran fighters were among five people killed in Israeli strikes in north and northwest Syria, the Observatory reported.

Since Syria's civil war broke out in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria, mainly targeting army positions and pro-Iran fighters including from Hezbollah.

Israeli authorities rarely comment on the strikes, but have repeatedly said they will not allow arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence in Syria.

 

With AFP

 

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