The leader of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, was killed in Israeli bombings last Friday, September 27, 2024, in Beirut. his son-in-law He is one of the three civilians who died this Wednesday, October 2, in an Israeli attack against a wealthy neighborhood in Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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The NGO, whose headquarters are in the United Kingdom but which has a wide network of collaborators on the ground, identified one of the deceased as Hasan Yadar Qasir, son-in-law of the late Hasan Nasrallah.
The Syrian Defense Ministry had previously reported that at least three civilians had been killed and three others wounded in the Israeli attack that hit a building in the Mezzeh neighborhood.
What was the Israeli bombing like in which Hassan Nasrallah’s son-in-law died?
“At approximately 17:25 local time (14:25 GMT) today, the Israeli enemy launched air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood of Damascus,” an anonymous military source said, according to a Defense Ministry statement, which did not identify the victims.
He added that this action, which has not been claimed by Israel so far, “it caused the death of three civilians and three others were injured, as well as material damage to private property in the vicinity of the place.”
Syrian security sources, on condition of anonymity, They told EFE that the attack, which was carried out with two missiles, produced great destruction in a residential building, adjacent to a mosque.
For its part, the NGO assured that the three-story building was frequently visited by leaders of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Yesterday, in a similar attack on the Mezzeh neighborhood, at least one Syrian state television journalist, named Safaa Ahmed, and two other civilians were killed.
Mezzeh is a neighborhood located in the west of Damascus and one of the most affluent in the capital where several embassies and homes of wealthy families are located, as well as residences of members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and leaders of Palestinian factions present in Syria.
This attack comes a day after the start of the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon and Iran’s attack on Israel in retaliation for the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, and an Iranian general.
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Source: https://www.noticiascaracol.com/mundo/muere-el-yerno-de-hasan-nasrala-en-medio-de-ataque-israeli-a-damasco-cb20
