イスラエルがダマスカス空爆、民間人７人死亡　シリア

【ダマスカスＡＦＰ＝時事】シリア政府は、８日のイスラエルによる首都ダマスカスへの空爆で民間人７人が死亡したと発表した。人権監視団体は、標的になったのはイランの革命防衛隊とレバノンのイスラム教シーア派組織ヒズボラが使用している建物だったとしている。（写真は、シリアの首都ダマスカスのマッジ地区で、イスラエルの空爆を受けたとされる現場）
　シリア国防省によれば、ダマスカスのマッジ地区にある住宅や事業所が入ったビルが空爆され、女性や子ども犠牲となった。捜索・救助活動が続いているため、死者数は暫定的なものだという。
　英国に拠点を置くＮＧＯ「シリア人権監視団」は、「イスラエルは革命防衛隊とヒズボラの幹部が頻繁に訪れる建物と、その前に駐車していた車を狙った」と指摘した。
　同ＮＧＯのラミ・アブドルラフマン所長は、９人が死亡し、そのうち５人は子どもを含む民間人だと述べた。
　また、少なくとも２人は外国人だとしたが、国籍については言及していない。
　在シリア・イラン大使館は、死者の中にイラン人はいないとしている。
　シリア外務省は８日、「無防備な民間人に対するこの残虐な犯罪を最も強い言葉で」非難すると述べた。さらに、イスラエルが中東地域を「壊滅的な結果をもたらす対立」に引きずり込むのを阻止するために、「今すぐ対処」すべきだと訴えた。
　ＡＦＰＴＶの動画からは、攻撃された建物が煙に包まれ、建築部材やねじ曲がった金属片が地面に散乱している様子が確認できる。
　ＡＦＰ特派員は、建物の１～３階部分が破壊され、近くの車約２０台ががれきで損傷しているのを確認した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/10/09-17:03）

The Syrian government said seven civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus Tuesday, that a war monitor said targeted a building used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
The defence ministry said women and children were among the dead in the strike on a residential and commercial building in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the capital which is home to embassies and security headquarters.
It said the toll was preliminary as rescuers were still combing the rubble.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: Israel targeted a building frequented by senior Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah operatives, as well as a car parked in front of the building.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said nine people were killed, five of them civilians including a child.
At least two of the dead were foreigners, the Observatory said, without specifying their nationality.
None of the dead were Iranian, the Iranian embassy in Damascus said.
Later Tuesday, the Syrian foreign ministry condemned in the strongest terms this brutal crime against defenceless civilians calling for immediate measures to stop Israel from dragging the region into a confrontation that will have disastrous consequences.
AFPTV footage from the scene showed a building engulfed in smoke, with rubble and torn metal strewn on the ground.
Electrician Adel Habib, 61, who lives in the building which was hit, said the strike was like Judgment Day.
I was on my way home when the explosion happened and communications and electricity were cut off so I could no longer contact my family inside the building, Habib said.
These were the longest five minutes of my life until I heard the voices of my wife, children and grandchildren.
Syrian state television said the strike caused extensive damage.
An AFP correspondent said the first three floors of the building had been destroyed and counted about 20 cars damaged by falling debris.
Last week, the Observatory said an Israeli strike on Mazzeh killed four people, including the son-in-law of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli air strike on south Beirut last month.
Israeli authorities rarely comment on individual strikes in Syria, but have repeatedly said they will not allow arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence.
Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah have been among the Syrian government's most important allies in the country's more than decade-old civil war.
More than 400,000 people, most of them returning Syrian refugees, have crossed into Syria over the past two weeks, fleeing heavy Israeli air strikes on Lebanon.