Israeli officials: The Damascus raid targeted a Hezbollah leader news

The New York Times quoted Israeli officials as saying that the raid on a residential building near the Iranian embassy in Damascus targeted a senior member of the… Hezbollah Involved in arms smuggling, they said.

It was not clear whether the official targeted in the Israeli strike in Syria was among those killed.

The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced the killing of 7 civilians, including women and children, in an Israeli raid that targeted a residential building in Damascus, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said was linked to…Revolutionary Guard Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah.

The Ministry of Defense said, “The Israeli enemy launched an air attack with 3 missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a residential and commercial building in the densely populated Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus, which led to the death of 7 civilians, including children and women, and the wounding of 11 others as a preliminary toll,” while work continues “to save Others from under the rubble.

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in a statement “in the strongest terms this brutal crime against defenseless civilians,” while the Iranian Fars News Agency and the Iranian Embassy in Beirut reported that “there are no Iranians among the dead.”

Earlier, Syrian media reported that the Israeli bombing of Damascus targeted an apartment inside a building near the Sheikh Saad area in the Mezzeh neighborhood.

An Agence France-Presse correspondent at the scene reported that the raid destroyed the first three floors of the building located in a crowded residential area, and more than 20 cars parked in the place.

Last Wednesday, at least 4 people were killed in an Israeli raid on the Mezzeh neighborhood as well.

The Mezzeh neighborhood includes a military airport and a prison inside it, in addition to security and government headquarters, embassies and diplomatic missions.

During the recent period, several Syrian regions, including Damascus, were subjected to repeated Israeli raids targeting army sites and others that Tel Aviv says are affiliated with Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah.