At 5:25 PM on Wednesday, 2nd October 2024, an airstrike allegedly perpetrated by the Israeli military on a residential building near al-Muhammadi Mosque in the Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, killed at least one young civilian woman and two men classified as militants, including a son-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah. According to one source, the apartment that was hit used to belong to the artist Duraid Lahham.

Twitter/X user @k7ybnd99 reported on the incident, mentioning the deaths and injuries, and shared a video of the strike. The Syrian regime-affiliated SANA agency provided more detailed information, noting that three civilians were killed and “many others injured”  as a result of the Israeli attack on the residential building.

The attack reportedly took the lives of the two twin sisters, Taima al-Ghazi and Dana al-Ghazi, daughters of Dr. Hassan Hisham al-Ghazi and Dr. Rasha al-Dahan. According to some sources, Taima al-Ghazi died the day of the airstrike that hit a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in the western part of Damascus. Dana al-Ghazi reportedly passed away the following day as a result of her injuries sustained by the airstrike. According to the Facebook post by Muhammad Wis, Taima was visiting her grandmother at the time of the strike.

However, some sources reported only on the death of Taima, noting that Dana sustained only light injuries. Therefore, it is not fully clear whether only one or both sisters died. Multiple sources posted the same two photos of each sister, where they are both smiling.

Hassan Jaafar Qasir, son-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah and the commander of Unit 4400, was killed as a result of the strike. Multiple sources reported that the bombing was targeted at Hassan Jaafar Quasir. Independent Arabia News posted “The son-in-law of the late Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an airstrike on a building in Damascus earlier on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, adding that the strike on a building in the capital’s Mezzeh district killed three people, “including two Lebanese, one of whom was Hassan Jaafar Qasir, Hassan Nasrallah’s son-in-law.” Multiple sources posted the same photo of Hassan Jaafar Quasir sitting outside smiling.

As Hassan Qasir was reportedly responsible for transporting weapons to Hezbollah, he is not considered a civilian by Airwars’ researchers.

An advisor to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Majid Diwani, was also killed as a result of the bombing. AlJeebalNews reported, “The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced the death of its advisor, Majid Diwani, as a result of his injuries sustained in an Israeli bombing that targeted a building in the Mezzeh area of ​​Damascus, noting that Diwani was killed along with four others, including Nasrallah’s son-in-law.” Taking into account his involvement with the Iranian military, he is not considered a civilian by Airwars.

The identity of the fifth person who was reportedly killed in the strike is not known at the time of publish.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli military.