ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - At least 36 people were killed and dozens others wounded as a result of a suspected Israeli strike on central Syria’s Palmyra on Wednesday, reported Syrian state media (SANA).

The attack, launched at around 1:30 pm, targeted several residential buildings in the city of Palmyra in the Syrian Desert, according to SANA citing an unnamed military source.

At least 36 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in the attack, in addition to “significant material damage to the targeted buildings and the surrounding area,” the source added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based war monitor, said that the attack targeted three different positions in Palmyra, including a weapons depot near an area where pro-Iran militiamen reside.

A meeting between Iranian militias, representatives of Iraq’s Harakat al-Nujaba, and senior leaders of the Lebanese Hezbollah, was also targeted in the strikes, according to SOHR.

The war monitor raised the death toll to at least 41, claiming that at least 22 of them were non-Syrian nationals, and adding that at least seven civilians were among the over 50 wounded.

Israel has targeted Syrian territories at least 152 times since the start of 2024, according to SOHR, killing over 340 armed men.

Syria's defense ministry announced at least 15 people were killed in two Israeli airstrikes on residential buildings in the Mazzeh area in central Damascus last week.

Iranian foreign ministry strongly condemned the attack on Damascus, calling it a “blatant violation,” and said that repeated Israeli strikes on Syria constitute “open aggression according to the United Nations Charter and require the urgent action of the United Nations Security Council to stop the aggression and hold the neighboring regime accountable.”