Dead and wounded in an Israeli raid on Damascus

A number of women and children among them

Nine civilians, including women and children, were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli raid that targeted a residential building in Damascus, according to what the Syrian Ministry of Defense reported in what it considered to be only a "preliminary toll" of the attack.

Iranian television denied the presence of the deputy commander of the Quds Force, Reza Fallahzadeh, and the Secretary of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad al-Nakhala, at the targeted site in Damascus.

Israel bombs Damascus

For its part, the Iranian embassy in Damascus denied the killing of Iranians in the raid on the Mezzeh neighborhood.

The Syrian Ministry of Defense said: "The Israeli enemy launched an air aggression with three missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting one of the residential and commercial buildings in the densely populated Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus, which led to the martyrdom of nine civilians, including children and women, and the injury of 11 others as a preliminary toll" while work continues "to rescue others from under the rubble."

Bombing of residential buildings

The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that "an Israeli aggression targeted a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood of Damascus."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Israeli raid targeted a building linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah in Damascus, in a new attack on the area that includes security headquarters and diplomatic missions.