5 Syrians Killed in Israeli airstrike near Damascus
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Five Syrians, including a soldier, were killed and 15 more were wounded in an Israeli missile strike near the capital Damascus.
“At 00:22 a.m. Sunday at dawn, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression with waves of missiles from the direction of occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in Damascus city and its surroundings, including residential neighborhoods,,” state-run SANA News Agency stated.
The Syrian air defenses intercepted the missiles and downed most of them, the statement added.
SANA cited a military source as saying “The aggression caused the death of five people, among them a soldier, and wounded 15 civilians, some of critical cases.”
The source stressed that a number of civilian houses were destroyed in the Israeli air attack and caused material damage to several neighborhoods in Damascus and its vicinity.
While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that Israeli missiles targeted sites including Iranian militias and the Lebanese Hezbollah, in an area between Sayyidah Zaynab and Diabiya in Rif Dimashq, human casualties were reported.
An Iranian school in Kafr Souseh was also destroyed. The airstrike caused fires and explosions in the targeted places, SOHR added.
In addition, the Israeli strikes targeted the Radar battalion in Tel Masih, south of Shahba in Suwayda Governorate, without any further information, according to the SOHR.
On Jan. 2, three Syrian soldiers, seven members of the Iranian militias and four more of other nationalities were killed in an Israeli airstrike, targeting Damascus International Airport.