The Syrian authorities mentioned seven civilians had been killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus Tuesday, {that a} struggle monitor mentioned focused a constructing utilized by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The defence ministry mentioned girls and youngsters had been among the many useless within the strike on a residential and business constructing within the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the capital which is dwelling to embassies and safety headquarters.
It mentioned the toll was preliminary as rescuers had been nonetheless combing the rubble.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights mentioned: “Israel focused a constructing frequented by senior Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah operatives, in addition to a automobile parked in entrance of the constructing”.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman mentioned 9 folks had been killed, 5 of them civilians together with a toddler.
At the very least two of the useless had been foreigners, the Observatory mentioned, with out specifying their nationality.
Not one of the useless had been Iranian, the embassy mentioned.
AFPTV footage from the scene confirmed a constructing engulfed in smoke, with rubble and torn steel strewn on the bottom.
Electrician Adel Habib, 61, who lives within the constructing which was hit, mentioned the strike was like “Judgment Day”.
“I used to be on my means dwelling when the explosion occurred and communications and electrical energy had been reduce off so I might now not contact my household” contained in the constructing, Habib mentioned.
“These had been the longest 5 minutes of my life till I heard the voices of my spouse, kids and grandchildren.”
Syrian state tv mentioned the strike brought about “intensive” harm.
An AFP correspondent mentioned the primary three flooring of the constructing had been destroyed and counted about 20 vehicles broken by falling particles.
Final week, the Observatory mentioned an Israeli strike on Mazzeh killed 4 folks, together with the son-in-law of the late Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli air strike on south Beirut final month.
Israeli authorities hardly ever touch upon particular person strikes in Syria, however have repeatedly mentioned they won’t enable arch-enemy Iran to develop its presence.
Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have been among the many Syrian authorities’s most essential allies within the nation’s greater than decade-old civil struggle.
Greater than 400,000 folks, most of them returning Syrian refugees, have crossed into Syria over the previous two weeks, fleeing heavy Israeli air strikes on Lebanon.
![[Editorial] Cease-gap measure](https://i0.wp.com/images.koreaherald.com/koreaherald/version03/www/images/share.jpg?w=150&resize=150,150&ssl=1 "[Editorial] Cease-gap measure")
