Two people were killed in an Israeli missile strike in a residential building in an upscale neighbourhood on Wednesday morning, a war monitor reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based watchdog group, stated that the attack was aimed at individuals associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, suggesting it was an assassination attempt.
The attack targeted a residential apartment near the Cham City Centre shopping mall and an Iranian school in the Kafar Sousah neighbourhood.
The state news agency SANA confirmed the attack but provided no further details.
Israel had frequently carried out missile strikes on Syrian targets, but hitting residential areas is uncommon and usually implied an assassination attempt.
The incident followed a similar attack on Jan. 20, when five IRGC officers were killed in a missile strike on the Western Mazzeh Villas neighbourhood in Damascus.
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