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full screen Israeli fighter jets on display. Archive image. Photo: Ariel Schalit/AP/TT
A residential building in the Syrian capital of Damascus has been hit in an Israeli strike, the Syrian state news agency Sana reports.
According to the UK-based SOHR, five people have been killed in the attack on the four-storey building, which was destroyed. According to SOHR, which has a network of sources in Syria, the building is used by Iranian Revolutionary Guard leaders as well as pro-Palestinian groups, and a meeting was said to have been underway when the attack occurred.
The news agency Reuters states that one member of the Revolutionary Guard was killed, and that several others were injured, citing a regional source.