Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 19: At least 15 people, including civilians, were killed after Israeli missile strikes in Damascus that struck a residential building.
Israeli airstrikes targeted residential areas in central Damascus on Sunday morning, just two weeks after a massive earthquake hit the region.
15 people killed, including civilians, in Israeli strike on Damascus that struck a residential building, reports AFP News Agency quoting Syrian Observatory for human rights
— ANI (@ANI) February 18, 2023
The missile hit a heavily guarded security complex near the Iranian installations. Israeli airstrikes often target sites in the vicinity of Damascus, but rarely hit residential areas in the region.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike, which hit close to an Iranian cultural centre, rocket struck a heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, witnesses and officials told Reuters. Israeli airstrikes frequently target sites in the vicinity of Damascus but rarely hit residential areas in the region.
Israel just bombed a residential building in Damascus, Syria.
Is Israel competing with the earthquake? pic.twitter.com/fMuKmcadKj
— Kevork Almassian🇸🇾🇦🇲 (@KevorkAlmassian) February 18, 2023
As per information, the strike took place in Kafr Sousa, a high-security area of the Syrian capital, which is home to senior security officials, security branches and intelligence headquarters. The strike also damaged several buildings in the densely populated area close to Omayyad square in the centre of the capital.
Meanwhile, loud explosions were heard in the capital around 12:30 am. Syrian air defence forces were ‘confronting hostile targets in the sky around Damascus’. Moreover, there was no immediate statement from Israel regarding the attack.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Observatory said, “The strike on Sunday is the deadliest Israeli attack in the Syrian capital.”
For almost a decade it has been seen that Israel carrying out air strikes against Iranian-sponsored weapons transfers and personnel deployments in next-door Syria. Israel has asserted that it will not let Iran extend its influence to its borders.
Earlier, on January 2, Israel’s military fired missiles towards the international airport of Syria’s capital, killing two soldiers and wounding two others.
