Four people, including two non-Syrians, were killed today, Tuesday, in an Israeli raid that targeted a building linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah in Damascus, according to what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, in a new attack on the area that includes security headquarters. And diplomatic missions.

The Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported “an Israeli aggression targeted a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus.”

The Observatory explained that the raid “targeted a building frequented by the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah,” and led to “the killing of four people, including two of non-Syrian nationalities.”

Government media reported earlier today that Syrian air defenses responded to “hostile” targets in the vicinity of Damascus.

Israel has been carrying out strikes on targets linked to Iran in Syria for years, but has escalated them since the attack launched by the Hamas movement on October 7, 2023 on Israeli territory, which ignited the war in Gaza