A Yemeni academic and his entire family were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a residential neighborhood in Damascus.

A Yemeni academic was martyred along with his entire family, as a result of the Zionist enemy’s bombing of the Syrian capital, Damascus, yesterday evening, Tuesday.

Those close to and colleagues of Dr. Shawqi Hussein Naji Al-Awdi said that he was martyred along with his wife and three daughters, when the Israeli enemy targeted a residential building in the Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus.

The Syrian Private University Students Union mourned Dr. Al-Awdi and his family members, and said in a statement on Facebook, "With great sadness and sorrow, the leadership of the union branch at the Syrian Private University mourns the martyrdom of Dr. Shawqi Al-Awdi, a faculty member at the university's College of Pharmacy, and the martyrdom of his wife and children as a result of the aggression on Damascus."

The Syrian news agency SANA said that "the Israeli aggression took place at 8:15 pm on Tuesday," when three missiles were launched from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a residential and commercial building in the densely populated "Mezzeh" neighborhood, resulting in the deaths of 18 civilians, including 7 dead and 11 wounded.

Academic Al-Awdi studied clinical pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, and obtained a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University. He worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Dhamar University, before moving to Syria, where he worked until his martyrdom, as a member of the teaching staff at the Syrian Private University.

The Yemeni academic hails from the Al-Awd area in the Al-Nadirah district, southeast of Ibb Governorate, central Yemen.

The incident comes days after the martyrdom of Yemeni Dr. Ali Al-Hajj and his mother as a result of an Israeli enemy bombardment that targeted their home in the village of Al-Rafid in the Western Bekaa region, in Lebanon.