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Three Killed in Israeli Strike on Damascus, Syrian State Media Says

Emergency service personnel and residents gather at the site of an Israeli strike in Syria's capital Damascus on October 2, 2024. (AFP)
Emergency service personnel and residents gather at the site of an Israeli strike in Syria's capital Damascus on October 2, 2024. (AFP)
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Three Killed in Israeli Strike on Damascus, Syrian State Media Says

Emergency service personnel and residents gather at the site of an Israeli strike in Syria's capital Damascus on October 2, 2024. (AFP)
Emergency service personnel and residents gather at the site of an Israeli strike in Syria's capital Damascus on October 2, 2024. (AFP)

Three civilians were killed and three wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Syria's capital Damascus on Wednesday, the Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying.

The Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building in the Mezzah suburb in western Damascus, the source said.

Israel has been carrying out strikes against Iran-linked targets in Syria for years, but has ramped up such raids since last year's Oct. 7 attack by the Palestinian armed group Hamas on Israeli territory.

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At Least 6 Killed in Israeli Airstrike in Central Beirut

Debris is scattered at the site of an Israeli strike on central Beirut's Bashoura neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Emilie Madi
Debris is scattered at the site of an Israeli strike on central Beirut's Bashoura neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Emilie Madi
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At Least 6 Killed in Israeli Airstrike in Central Beirut

Debris is scattered at the site of an Israeli strike on central Beirut's Bashoura neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Emilie Madi
Debris is scattered at the site of an Israeli strike on central Beirut's Bashoura neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Emilie Madi

At least six people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Lebanese capital, Lebanse health officials said Thursday.

Another seven people were wounded in the attack in Beirut late Wednesday.

Israel said it conducted a precise airstrike on Beirut.

The airstrike started a fire in an apartment in a multistory building in the residential Bashoura district, not far from the United Nations headquarters, the prime minister’s office and parliament.

The strike reportedly targeted a center of the group’s health unit.

There was no warning issued ahead of the strike.

Residents reported a sulfur-like smell following the attack, and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency accused Israel of using internationally banned phosphorous bombs. Human rights groups have in the past accused Israel of using white phosphorus incendiary shells on towns and villages in conflict-hit southern Lebanon.