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Syrian state media reported on Wednesday that two individuals have been killed in an airstrike on a residential constructing in Damascus, and stated Israel was chargeable for the assault.
The Israeli navy declined to touch upon the assault, which the Syrian authorities's official SANA information company stated struck a constructing within the Kafr Sousa neighborhood simply after 9:30 a.m. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which displays the battle in Syria, stated a 3rd individual was killed by shrapnel within the assault, which additionally broken close by buildings.
At the least 5 individuals have been killed in an assault in the identical neighborhood final February. On the time, a senior Western diplomat stated the assault was focusing on Iranians close to a website utilized by the Iranian navy.
Though Israel didn’t touch upon the newest assault, it has acknowledged a whole lot of earlier assaults on Iran-linked targets in Syria.
Iranian proxies similar to Israel, Iran and Syria have been waging a shadow battle by air, land, sea and our on-line world for years. Iran helps and arms a community of proxy militias combating alongside Israel, together with Hamas and different Palestinian teams.
Assaults and counter-attacks have intensified throughout the area within the wake of Hamas-led assaults towards Israel on October 7. Final month, Iran accused Israel of finishing up an airstrike on the Syrian capital Damascus, killing senior Iranian navy personnel.
cassandra winograd And Hweda Saad Contributed to the reporting.