DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
Fifteen people were killed and 16 injured in Israeli attacks on a number of residential buildings in suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, state news agency SANA reported, citing a Syrian military source.
The buildings are located in
the suburbs of Mazzeh and Qudsaya, both west of the capital, the SANA report
said.
Israeli army radio said the
targets of the attack in Damascus were a headquarters of the Palestinian
militant group Islamic Jihad and what it described as other assets, without
elaborating.
Israel has been carrying out
strikes against Iran-linked targets in Syria for years but has ramped up such
raids since last year’s Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian group Hamas on Israeli
territory that sparked the Gaza war.
Commanders in Lebanon’s
Hezbollah armed group and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards based in Syria have been
known to reside in Mazzeh, according to residents who fled after recent strikes
that killed some key figures from the groups.
Mazzeh’s high rise blocks have
been used by the authorities in the past to house leaders of Palestinian
factions including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
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