Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the outbreak of the Western backed war in 2011. Syrian authorities have repeatedly called on the United Nations to hold the Tel Aviv regime accountable for targeting civilian areas in the country.

DAMASCUS, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday targeting two sites allegedly housing Hezbollah fighters in the Sayyidah Zaynab area on the outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus, a war monitor reported.

An Israeli strike on a residential building in the Sayeda Zainab district south of the Syrian capital Damascus killed seven civilians on Sunday, the Syrian defence ministry said, in the second such attack in less than a week.

Syrian and Western intelligence sources say Israeli attacks in Syria have killed scores of Hezbollah and pro-Iranian militia fighters based around the eastern outskirts of Damascu

Israel struck an apartment belonging to Hezbollah in a stronghold of pro-Iran groups south of Damascus on Sunday, killing nine people including a commander, a war monitor said.