The dead rise to four, including Nasrallah’s son-in-law, in the attack blamed on Israel against Damascus

MADRID 3 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has confirmed the death of Hasan Jafar Qasir, son-in-law of the recently deceased general secretary of the Lebanese Shiite party-militia Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, in the attack carried out on Wednesday afternoon against Damascus, the capital of Syria. where three other people died.

Along with him, two Lebanese people have died (a woman and a Hezbollah member) and another unidentified person, while three others have been injured after the attack on the first floor of a three-story building in the Mezzé district and which was frequented by members of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Earlier in the week, Israel killed Qasir’s brother, responsible for transporting weapons from Syria to Lebanon, and launched another attack about 500 meters from the attacked location. In fact, the spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Stéphane Dujarric, has reported that this attack occurred at the same distance from numerous UN offices.

Dujarric has also reported that during the day this Wednesday two rockets fell 120 meters from his offices in Damascus and bombings in the regions of Dara and Sweida, both in the south, which led to the interruption of some humanitarian activities.

Israeli authorities generally acknowledge having carried out attacks in Syria, arguing that they are acting to prevent the establishment of Iranian bases and the shipment of weapons to the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah by Tehran, which supports Syrian President Bashar al Assad in the framework of the war that broke out in 2011 after the violent repression of pro-democratic demonstrations within the framework of the ‘Arab Spring’.