At least two people have been killed in an alleged Israeli attack on Damascus, according to Syrian state television.
“An Israeli attack with a number of missiles targets the Kafr Sousa residential neighborhood in the capital Damascus,” Syria’s state TV reports.
State news agency SANA also publishes images of the purported aftermath of the attack, showing the outside of multi-story building partially blackened and windows blown out, with a fire visible in one apartment that appeared to have been targeted.
While Israel does not, as a rule, comment on specific strikes in Syria, it has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed terror groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country over the last decade. The Israeli military says it attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Hezbollah. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.
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