CAIRO, Jan 20 Several civilians were killed and injured as a result of an Israeli attack on the Syrian capital Damascus, the Syrian Ministry of Defense said.
«At about 10.20 am, the Israeli enemy carried out air aggression from the occupied Golan Heights, striking a residential building in the Al-Mezza area in the city of Damascus. Our air defense systems responded to enemy missiles and shot down some of them. As a result of the aggression, a number of civilians were killed and injured, the building was completely destroyed, and neighboring houses were damaged,” the Syrian Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
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Syrian media previously wrote that explosions were heard in Damascus on Saturday morning . Media later reported that Israel attacked a residential building in the Al-Mezza area of Damascus. The Al Watan newspaper reported that one person was killed and three were injured.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, an elite unit of the Iranian armed forces) said that four IRGC advisers were killed in an Israeli air attack on the Syrian capital.