Israeli fighter jets bombed the Syrian capital Damascus before dawn on Tuesday, state-run media has reported.

Three civilians, including Safaa Ahmed, a well-known Syrian television anchor, were killed and nine others injured in Israeli airstrikes on Al Mazzeh, a municipality in Damascus, according to local reports. According to the official Syrian news agency SANA, the Israeli occupation launched an air aggression, targeting a number of points in Damascus, adding that the aggression led to the killing of “three civilians and wounding nine others, and causing significant damage to private property.”SANA confirmed that she was among the slain.

Nine civilians were reported wounded in the strikes, they have not been identified. It is still unclear who the non-civilians killed were, as the Mazzeh District includes a number of government offices as well as the embassy district of Damascus.

Though it isn’t often as high profile as the ongoing wars, Israel has been striking targets in Syria intermittently for years, and as recently as the past week struck Syria alongside its attacks on Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

International humanitarian law, which forbids indiscriminate attacks or those that place civilians in danger, is deemed to be seriously violated by attacks directed towards civilians, including media figures.

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