Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
An Israeli strike targeted a multi-story building in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital, Damascus, late on October 8, causing casualties.
In a statement to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, a Syrian military official said that a residential and commercial building in Mezzeh was struck by three Israeli missiles which were launched from the direction of the occupied Golan Height.
The strike killed seven civilians and wounded at least 11 others, according to the unnamed official, who noted that working was still ongoing to rescue others from under the rubble.
The Saudi news outlet Al-Hadath reported that the target of the strike was a member of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, which is allegedly responsible for moving weapons from Iran to Lebanon.
The next day, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a total of nine civilians were killed in the strike in addition to two members of Hezbollah. The civilian casualties included a Yemeni college professor along with his wife and three young daughters as well as two Syrian women, one of whom was a doctor, a man and a child, according to the London-based pro-opposition monitoring group.
Israel stepped up its attacks on Syria significantly since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
The Israeli military announced after escalating operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon last month that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Last week, the commander of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, Muhammad Ja’far, was killed in a strike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, while his brother was reportedly killed days later in a strike on Mezzeh in Damascus.
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