A Yemeni academic, his wife and three daughters died yesterday, Tuesday, as a result of Israeli raids on the residential building in which he lived in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Close sources said that Dr. Shawqi Hussein Al-Aoudi, his wife, and his three daughters were all killed in the raids launched by the brutal Israeli enemy on the residential building in which he lives in the Mezzeh neighborhood area in Damascus, Syria, without further details.

Earlier, 7 people were killed and 11 others were injured, in a preliminary toll of the Israeli bombing on a residential building in the Mezzeh area in Damascus.

The official Syrian news agency (SANA) quoted a military source as saying that at around 20:15 local time, “the Israeli enemy launched an air attack with 3 missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a residential and commercial building in the densely populated Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus.”