Syria blames Israel as blasts reported in Damascus
Explosions have been heard in the Syrian capital Damascus in what state media has described as an act of “Israeli aggression”.
Israeli strike hits building in Syria’s central Damascus area: Report
Syrian state news agency SANA is now reporting that the Israeli attack targeted a residential building in the central Damascus neighbourhood of Kafr Sousa. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties.
Israel has for years conducted regular attacks on targets inside Syria but rarely admits to its military campaign. Those attacks have escalated amid Israel’s war on Gaza and attack on Lebanon.
On Monday, an Israeli missile attack on a car in Damascus killed two people. Israel’s military claimed it killed a Hezbollah commander in the strike in the Syrian capital.
Syrian emergency and security services inspect the wreckage of a car that exploded in Damascus on October 21, 2024. Syria’s Defence Ministry said two civilians were killed in an Israeli strike on the vehicle in the Mazzeh district of Damascus, home to embassies and security headquarters
One killed, 7 injured following Israeli strikes in Damascus, Homs
A Syrian soldier has been killed and seven others have been injured following an Israeli military attack in Damascus and Homs, Syria’s state news agency SANA reports. Earlier, we reported that Israeli air strikes targeted a residential building in the central Damascus neighbourhood of Kafr Sousa.
SANA now reports that Israeli forces have also bombed a military site in the Homs countryside.
Iran’s IRGC chief cautions Israel not to rely on ‘limited’ THAAD capabilities
The commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has suggested advanced US missile defence systems will not be enough if Israel prompts an Iranian attack by hitting Iran.
“Do not trust the THAAD systems. They are limited, and you have relied on a limited power,” Hossein Salami is quoted as saying by the IRGC-linked Tasnim news website.
“Whatever you wish to fire, your enemies will fire at you several times stronger. You cannot emerge victorious in this story, and we will defeat you.”
The US has situated one THAAD system in Israel along with about 100 soldiers, and Israel has requested a second system.
Salami also threatened that “a small territory whose economy is 98 percent reliant on the sea must think more as unwise decisions could bring about the downfall of a regime with surprising speed.”
The IRGC chief said the US is making a mistake by “tying its political reputation with the crimes” of the Israelis, adding that the world now knows the US by “the bombs that are falling on the children of Gaza and Lebanon”.
