Israel on Thursday launched an airstrike on a building in Damascus, according to Syrian state media. It is understood that the attack targeted an area known to house Palestinian leaders, killing at least one person.

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been vacant for years.

Israel conducted an airstrike in Damascus, Syria, aiming at what it claimed was an Islamic Jihad command center. Syrian reports indicated civilian injuries, while Israel maintained the target facilitated terrorist activities.

According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the attack targeted an area known to house Palestinian leaders, killing at least one person.

Israel’s Defense Minister issued a warning, stating that Syria’s new president would face continued airstrikes if terrorist activities against Israel were organized from within the country. A member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad who was at the site claimed that the targeted building was the residence of the group’s leader,

Israel says it has carried out an airstrike on Syria's capital, Damascus, claiming that the attack targeted the headquarters of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement.

Syria’s state news agency says an Israeli airstrike has struck a residential building on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. The agency did not give further details about Thursday’s airstrike. Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed that it carried out an airstrike on a residential building in Damascus.

Israel carried out an air strike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, targeting what the military said was a command centre belonging to the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, used to direct 'terrorist activities' against Israel.

An Israeli airstrike destroyed a residential building on the outskirts of Damascus on Thursday in the latest Israeli incursion into post-Assad Syria.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday "whoever attacks us or plans to attack us, we attack them," hours after the Israeli army struck a residential building in Syria.