According to Syrian state media, at least two individuals were killed on Wednesday in Damascus when an Israeli airstrike targeted a residential neighborhood. This incident marks the latest casualties resulting from an intensifying Israeli air campaign following the outbreak of the Gaza conflict.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with a number of missiles… targeting a residential building in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood in Damascus,” said a statement from a military source carried by state news agency SANA.
“The attack led to the martyrdom of two civilians, wounded others and caused material damage to the building” and surrounding structures, the statement added.
The high-security Kafr Sousa area of the Syrian capital is home to senior security officials, intelligence headquarters and an Iranian cultural center.
An AFP photographer said the strike hit a nine-story building, with damage centered around the fourth floor.
The exterior of the building was partially blackened, while firefighters scrambled to put out the resulting blaze.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, gave a death toll of three, saying that “a Syrian civilian” was killed as well as two foreign nationals.
with AFP
