Guwahati: A Syrian building in the Kafr Sousa neighbourhood of central Damascus was hit by an Israeli rocket early on Sunday morning. According to witnesses and officials, the missile struck near a heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, killing five people.
A rare occurrence, caused damage to a number of buildings in the heavily populated area close to Omayyad Square in the centre of the city, where multi-story security buildings are situated within residential areas, the targeted hit by Israel.
State media was informed by a police officer that the incident resulted in multiple deaths and injuries. A representative for the Israeli military declined to comment to Reuters.
According to the official media, which quoted a military source, Israel launched airstrikes at numerous locations in the capital shortly after midnight that resulted in the deaths of five civilians, 15 injuries, and damage to a number of residential buildings.
The army said in a statement, “It caused damage to several civilian homes and material damage to a number of neighbourhoods in Damascus and its vicinity.”
But, it has not yet been clear whether the attack was directed at a specific person or a larger group.
It should be noted that in 2008, a bombing in Kafr Sousa, a heavily patrolled neighbourhood where locals claim multiple Iranian security organisations are based, killed pro-Iran Hezbollah’s top commander Imad Moughniyeh.
Israel has launched airstrikes on alleged Iranian-sponsored personnel and weapon deployments in neighbouring syria Since approximately ten years ago. Rarely have Israeli officials accepted accountability for any such particular operations.
This occurred as Iran’s military presence in Syria has grown over the past few years, and according to sources in Western intelligence, Tehran now controls thousands of militia and local paramilitary personnel and has a foothold in the majority of state-controlled areas.
Israel has also increased airstrikes on Syrian airports and air bases in recent months in an effort to stop Iran from using aerial supply lines to send weapons to allies in Syria and Lebanon, particularly Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah.
According to Israeli military experts, the strikes constitute an expansion of a low-intensity conflict that aimed to stop Iran’s expanding encroachment in Syria.
Hezbollah of Lebanon and other Iranian proxy forces currently rule over substantial portions of eastern, southern, and northwestern Syria as well as a number of the capital’s suburbs.
President Bashar al-regime Assad’s in Syria has never recognised in public that Iran is supporting him militarily in that country’s civil war and that Tehran merely has military advisors there.