At least 15 people died on Sunday night as a result of a israeli missile attack over a neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, although the official Syrian news agency SANA reported five dead and 15 injured.

The missiles fell on the Kafar Souseh neighborhood, in Damascus, and in the town of Dawar al Mazra, about 12 kilometers south of the capital. According to the Observatory, “Israeli missiles targeted sites where Iranian militias and Lebanese Hezbollah were located.”

The attacks have also caused “fires and explosions at the target locations“, which have spread in an area between the towns of Sayeda Zainab, ten kilometers south of Damascus, and Diabiya, in the countryside around the Syrian capital.

The missiles have destroyed an Iranian school in the Damascus neighborhood of Kafar Souseh. Another has fallen “in the Al Mazraa roundabout, causing the death of a woman” and, in addition, “the Radar battalion has been attacked in Tal Masih, in As Suwayda”, southwest of the Syrian capital, according to the Observatory.

This Israeli attack is the second during the year 2023 and it took place “at exactly 00:22, when the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with missile bursts from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan,” the Syrian news agency SANA reported, citing a military source.

According to this same source, the objectives were “residential neighborhoods inhabited by civilians“, which ended with “the destruction of several civilian homes and material damage in various neighborhoods in and around Damascus.”

He also indicated that the “air defenses intercepted the aggression missiles and shot down most of them.”