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Israeli air raid tagets area near Damascus: SANA

Initial reports indicate an Israeli strike targeted an area south of Damascus, the official SANA news agency reports. The agency said that there is an unknown “number of dead and injured in the Israeli aggression on the Sayyida Zaynab area in the outskirts of Damascus”.

Syrian activists and local news outlets published footage on social media sites that was verified by Al Jazeera showing the explosion site.


War monitor says Israeli strike kills three south of Damascus: Report

The Israeli strike we reported on earlier that targeted an apartment has killed three people, a war monitor has said. “An Israeli air strike killed three people in the Sayyida Zeinab area,” Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.

The watchdog said the apartment belonged “to the Lebanese Hezbollah group … in a stronghold of pro-Iran groups”.