The Israeli Air Force carried out an attack on a residential area in Damascus late Saturday night, killing five people and wounding 15 others, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.
There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces, in line with their policy of not commenting on airstrikes in the country in general.
Citing a military source, SANA said the attack on the Kafar Sousah neighborhood in the Syrian capital killed four civilians and a soldier and wounded another 15 civilians. Several of the wounded were said to be in critical condition.
Some unconfirmed Syrian media reports put the death toll higher.
The airstrike also inflicted severe damage on several residential buildings in Kafar Sousah, SANA said.
Pictures and videos from the Damascus neighborhood showed severe damage to several buildings.
SANA claimed Syrian air defenses managed to intercept “most” of the missiles fired by IAF jets in the attack over the Golan Heights. Syria regularly claims to intercept Israeli missiles, although military analysts have disputed such claims.
filming from northern Israel appeared to show a Syrian anti-aircraft missile exploding over the Golan Heights.
Orient News, a Syrian opposition media outlet, claimed the attacks were aimed at Iranian militiamen at the so-called Iranian school in Kafar Sousah.
Separately, the Israeli jets were targeting Iranian and Syrian regime military bases near Damascus International Airport, as well as Sitt Zaynab and al-Kiswah, a town south of the capital, Orient News said.
The outlet also claimed the damage to the residential buildings in Kafar Sousah was caused by a misfired Syrian anti-aircraft missile.
The Israeli military does not typically comment on specific attacks in Syria, but has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties over the past decade against Iran-backed groups trying to gain a foothold in the country.
The IDF says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be destined for these groups, most notably the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah. Additionally, air strikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.
Last week, Saudi news site Elaph quoted an Israeli military official as saying that if Iran were to ship arms to its regional proxies in Syria under the guise of humanitarian aid after the great earthquake there, the IDF would not hesitate to strike.
The unnamed official said “there is information indicating that Iran will take advantage of the tragic situation in Syria” and supply weapons to Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups in Syria.
Several Iranian cargo planes carrying aid have landed in Syria since a powerful earthquake hit the country and areas of southeastern Turkey on February 6.
In recent years, Israel has been credited with several airstrikes against alleged Iranian arms shipments disguised as seemingly harmless products, including an incident last month.
It is generally believed that relatively large arms are smuggled via Syria using Iranian cargo planes, which often land at Damascus International and the Tiyas or T-4 airbase outside the central Syrian city of Palmyra.
It is believed the weapons will then be stored in warehouses in the area before being transported to Lebanon.