An AP journalist at the scene in Mazzeh said a five-story building was damaged by a missile that hit the basement.

An Israeli airstrike has killed at least 12 Lebanese rescue workers inside a civil defense center in the eastern city of Baalbek.

At least 15 people were killed and 16 others injured in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, local media said. Women and children were among the victims in the attack that targeted residential buildings in Al Mazzeh and Qudssaya neighborhoods in Damascus,