BEIRUT: An Israeli air strike killed three people in Damascus Wednesday, a monitor said, in the second strike in as many days on a neighborhood that is home to security headquarters and embassies.
鈥淎n Israeli air strike targeted a flat in a residential building in the Mazzeh neighborhood frequented by Hezbollah leaders and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards,鈥� the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It killed at least three people, two of them foreigners, the monitor said.
State news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying that that 鈥渢he Israeli enemy launched an air strike... targeting one of the residential buildings in the Mazzeh neighborhood.鈥�
The source said three civilians were killed and three wounded.
Wednesday鈥檚 strike hit around 500 meters (yards) from Tuesday鈥檚 strike.
The Observatory said the earlier strike killed six people 鈥� three civilians including a television anchor and three Iran-backed fighters, one of them from Hezbollah.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the country鈥檚 civil war erupted in 2011, mainly targeting army positions and Iran-backed fighters, including those of Hezbollah.
Israeli authorities rarely comment on individual strikes but have said repeatedly they will not allow arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence in Syria.
The strikes have intensified in recent days, including in areas near the border with Lebanon.