Three civilians were killed and three others injured in an Israeli air strike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, the Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying.
According to the source, the Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building in the Mezzeh neighbourhood in western Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the son-in-law of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in a major Israeli strike in Beirut last week, was also killed in the Israeli strike in Damascus.
Hassan Nasrallah’s son-in-law, Hassan Jaafar al-Kasir, was among two Lebanese killed in an Israeli strike on an apartment in the Mezzeh district of Damascus,’ the Observatory said, with a source close to Hezbollah confirming the claim to AFP.
The Observatory also said an Israeli drone targeted and destroyed an arms depot in the Syrian coastal town of Jabalah before dawn on Thursday.
The Britain-based monitoring group said the attack, carried out by drones and fighter jets, leveled the warehouse and caused large explosions that could be heard for miles.
It added that Syrian air defences and Russian forces responded to the attack within 40 to 50 minutes as the depot was located near the Khmeimim airbase in the northwestern province of Latakia, Russia’s largest airbase in Syria.
