Israeli strikes hit an Iranian embassy annex building in Syria’s capital on Monday , state media said, as a war monitor reported six people were killed in the building.
According to Syria’s official news agency SANA”The Israeli attack targeted the Iranian consulate building in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of Damascus.”
Israel, which has increased its attacks on terrorist organisations with ties to Iran as part of its ongoing Gaza campaign against Hamas since October 7, did not immediately respond.
Iranian media also said that the ambassador was unharmed and that the annexe building was totally destroyed in the Damascus bombings.
“Hossein Akbari, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus, and his family were not harmed in the Israeli attack,” the Iranian news outlet Nour reported.
Two AFP reporters on the scene verified that the structure adjacent to the embassy was razed to the ground by the strike.
Britain-based group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said “Israeli missiles… destroyed the building of an annex to the Iranian embassy… in Damascus, killing six people”.
Syria’s official SANA news agency earlier reported that “our air defence systems confronted enemy targets in the vicinity of Damascus”.
This incident came days after the Observatory reported Israeli strikes that killed 53 people in Syria, including 38 soldiers and seven members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
It was the highest Syrian army toll in Israeli strikes since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, said the monitor.
