ALBAWABA - Syrian state media reported that explosions were heard around the Syrian capital Damascus following Israeli strikes on a neighbourhood in the city, which killed two people and one has been reportedly injured.
UPDATE
Another explosion has been reported in the Syrian capital Damascus, yet no reports have emerged of how major the explosion was.
Israel targeted a residential neighborhood in Damascus on Wednesday, Syrian government media said.
"An Israeli attack with a number of missiles targets the Kafr Sousa residential neighborhood in the capital Damascus," Syria's state TV said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said that "a Syrian civilian" was killed as well as two foreign nationals. The high-security Kafr Sousa area of the Syrian capital is home to senior security officials, intelligence headquarters, and an Iranian cultural center.
Razi Moussavi, a top commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike attributed on Israel in the Sayyida Zeinab region south of Damascus last December.
He was the highest-ranking Quds Force commander to be murdered outside Iran in nearly four years. Another strike blamed on Israel killed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Syria intelligence chief and his deputy in Damascus' Mazzeh neighborhood in January, according to Iran's Mehr news agency. The Observatory said that 13 people were killed in the hit.
