Middle East|According to the NGO, the target of the attack was a building used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the extremist organization Hezbollah.
Several people died on Tuesday in an airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus.
The Syrian government earlier said seven civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike, but expected the death toll to rise.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British organization that monitors the war in Syria, the target of the attack was a building used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the extremist organization Hezbollah. A car outside the building was also bombed.
Director of a non-governmental organization Rami Abdel Rahman said nine people were killed. Five of them were civilians, one of whom was a child.
According to the organization, at least two of the victims were foreigners, but it did not specify their nationalities.
Syria the Ministry of Defense said that women and children also died in the attack. According to it, the attack targeted a residential and commercial building in the Mazzeh district, where embassies and security headquarters are located, among other things.
The Iranian embassy in Damascus said no Iranians were among the dead.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the attack, which it called a brutal crime against defenseless civilians. Syria demanded immediate action so that Israel does not push the entire region into clashes that would have catastrophic consequences.
Bombed a 61-year-old electrician who lives in the building Adel Habib said that the blow sounded “like doomsday”.
“I was on my way home when the explosion happened and communications and electricity were cut off, so I could no longer contact my family inside the house,” said Habib.
“It was the longest five minutes of my life before I heard the voices of my wife, children and grandchildren,” he continued.
Syrian state media said the strike caused widespread damage.
According to the correspondent of the news agency AFP, three floors of the building were destroyed, and in addition, around 20 cars were damaged due to flying fragments.
Last last week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that an Israeli strike in the same area killed four people, one of whom was the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah son-in-law.
Israel does not tend to comment on individual strikes on Syria, but has repeatedly said it will not allow its archenemy Iran to expand its presence. Iran and the Lebanese extremist organization Hezbollah have been the main allies of the Syrian government during the country’s more than decade-long civil war.
More than 400,000 people have fled the Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon to the Syrian side in the past two weeks. Most of them have been refugees who fled the Syrian civil war to Lebanon.
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