15 people were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted the Mazzeh neighborhood and the Qudsaya area in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Thursday.

Syrian state media said 15 people were killed in an initial count of Israeli attacks on Damascus.

The official Syrian news agency (SANA) said that "according to initial information, the Israeli aggression targeted two residential buildings in the areas of Mezzeh and Qudsaya" and loud explosions were heard in the two neighborhoods.

For its part, the Israeli Army Radio said that the attack targeted assets and leadership headquarters of the Islamic Jihad movement in Damascus and was not an assassination, and came within the framework of pre-planned attacks.

Commenting on the attack, the Islamic Jihad Movement said, "We mourn the loss of a group of the movement's sons to our Palestinian people in a sinful aggression that targeted the Syrian capital, Damascus, this evening."

She added, "The enemy army claimed that it targeted the movement's headquarters and military centers, which is a mere fabrication of imaginary heroism."

Before that, Syrian media reported explosions in the city and countryside of Homs today, Thursday, launched from Lebanese airspace.

SANA news agency said that the Syrian air defenses confronted a hostile target in the southern airspace of the city of Homs in central Syria.

Yesterday, Wednesday, the agency spoke about an Israeli aggression that targeted the Qusayr area in the Homs countryside in central Syria, and said that the air defenses were "confronting hostile targets" in the skies of the western Homs countryside.

Syrian media also reported that a series of Israeli raids targeted Shinshar, Al-Daf Bridge, Al-Qusayr, and Al-Dabaa checkpoint in the Homs countryside.