Eight Syrians injured in first alleged Israeli airstrike since Iran escalation

Eight Syrian soldiers were injured in alleged Israeli airstrikes that targeted a building in the Damascus area on Thursday night, the first such strikes reported since several senior commanders in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in early April.

According to Syrian reports, the airstrike targeted a building used by Syrian security forces near Najha, south of Damascus.

The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the airstrikes were carried out from over the Golan Heights, causing material damage and injuring several Syrian soldiers in the Damascus region.

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Local media outlets reported that ambulances were seen in the area shortly after the strike and that three missiles targeted the building south of Damascus.

Last strike targeted IRGC commanders near Iranian embassy

The last alleged Israeli airstrikes to target the Damascus area were reported in early April, when a strike targeted a building next to the Iranian embassy, killing Mohammad Reza Zahedi — a commander in the IRGC responsible for operations in Syria and Lebanon - and several other senior IRGC commanders.

About two weeks later, Iran launched over 300 drones and missiles toward Israel in response. While the IDF, the US, and several regional and international partners succeeded in downing most of the missiles and drones, some of them fell on a base in southern Israel, and shrapnel from the missiles seriously wounded a 7-year-old Bedouin girl. 

This is a developing story.