Damascus, Syria.- At least seven people, including children and women, were killed this Tuesday in an Israeli bombardment against a residential building in Damascus, the Syrian Ministry of Defense reported.
“The Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack… against a residential and commercial building in the densely populated Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus, killing seven civilians, including children and women,” the ministry said.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), based in London and with an extensive network of informants in the country, reported a second death toll of nine, including five civilians. The previous one reported four deaths. According to that organization, the bombing targeted “a building frequented by senior leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Tehran’s ideological army) and members of the Lebanese Hezbollah, as well as a vehicle parked in front of the building.”
At least two of the dead were not Syrians, indicated the OSDH, which did not, however, specify their nationalities.
The attack occurred in the Mazzeh neighborhood, which houses diplomatic missions and UN offices, according to an AFP correspondent, who counted around 20 vehicles damaged. Last Wednesday, a bombing in that same neighborhood left several dead, including, according to the OSDH, the son-in-law of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who died on September 27 in a bombing in Beirut. Israeli authorities do not usually comment on these bombings, but they say they will not allow Iran, Israel’s archenemy, to expand its presence in Syria.
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