Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
An Israeli strike targeted a multi-story building in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital, Damascus, late on October 8, causing casualties.
In a statement to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, a Syrian military official said that a residential and commercial building in Mezzeh was struck by three Israeli missiles which were launched from the direction of the occupied Golan Height.
The strike killed seven civilians and wounded at least 11 others, according to the unnamed official, who noted that working was still ongoing to rescue others from under the rubble.
The Saudi news outlet Al-Hadath reported that the target of the strike was a member of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, which is allegedly responsible for moving weapons from Iran to Lebanon.
The next day, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a total of nine civilians were killed in the strike in addition to two members of Hezbollah. The civilian casualties included a Yemeni college professor along with his wife and three young daughters as well as two Syrian women, one of whom was a doctor, a man and a child, according to the London-based pro-opposition monitoring group.
Israel stepped up its attacks on Syria significantly since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
The Israeli military announced after escalating operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon last month that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Last week, the commander of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, Muhammad Ja’far, was killed in a strike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, while his brother was reportedly killed days later in a strike on Mezzeh in Damascus.
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i hope that russia will condemn this in the un general assembly and continue its inaction. by the way, if you have checked how russian diplomats talked about iran, they have more or less given the green light to any american-israeli operation there. they will condemn it, of course, as aggression against their “ally”, but they will do nothing. the same as in syria. being a russian ally is as good as being shot. lots of problems are guaranteed and nothing is gained.
the western “rules based” system is an utter failure. there is no way we can reform this system. best to destroy it, burn it to the ground, and make a non-western alternative instead. the english-zionist system can circle jerk itself with their slavish vassals. the rest of us do not need them. we have enough resources and manpower, civilization and culture to withstand messianic new worldism
the sad thing is that iran doesn’t even need russia to win a war against israel, even if it’s backed by the us, conventionally.
moreover, israel cannot bomb syria into submission either. there’s simply no military solution to western decadence and economic decline. and brics’ patience is waning. we see china also becoming more involved… which is the real turnkey factor that no one is talking about…
and in terms of where russia stands. as a good friend and expert in asian history pointed out: if putin was with israel and the us, they wouldn’t have intervened in syria in the first place and decimated isis. people forget isis and separatist terror organizations funded by the west were a hair away from conquering damascus and toppling assad just like they did in lybia. you can unequivocally say that the zionist’s geostrategic ambitions were thwarted by russia.
russia intervened for their own purposes, not to save anyone. syria is the gateway to iran, which is gateway to russia. russia has the same problem as the rest of the world, zionists. a vast number of those ‘settlers’ are russians…which putin regards as russians, not israelis. putin said killing terrorists there is better than killing them in russia. russia does not label israel terrorists, even after pagers and phone attack they labeled terrorism?
until the jewish bitches experience having their lands razed, their homes destroyed, they will act with impunity, it’s time to bomb any and all places of bibi’s supporters, their people must live underground, hidden like rats, the promised land has to turn to rubble
those zionist thugs have been attacking syria using lebanese airspace for years and no one has done a damn thing about it, netanyahu is a wild animal on a murder rampage, and will continue until someone has the balls to put the mad dog down.
israel wont be able to kill its way out of its mental degeneration. they are picking fights with everyone, and this has already made zionism a failed colonialist project. the best ticket now for jews is a one way flight to jew york city
these attacks will not end until israel is not able to. their entire air force needs targeted. leave not one plane intact. that would be the end of their ‘aggression with impunity’. how many planes have been dropped from the skies? how many air ports are still able to launch air attacks? how many civilians are targeted daily? if the resistance is to save lives, they need to all concentrate on air fields. no air force=no ‘israel’. take away their one true weapon.