Israeli Defense Minister Israel Kats confirmed today that an Israeli airstrike was carried out in Damascus, following the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ announcement that one person was killed in a strike in the Syrian capital.

“Wherever a terrorist act is carried out against Israel, the Islamist radical leader Al-Jolani will see the air force planes flying and hitting the terrorist targets,” Katz said in a statement, using the name given during the war to Syria’s interim president Ahmad Al-Saraa.

The Israeli army, for its part, said in a separate statement that it struck “against a command center… belonging to the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad in Damascus.”

“The command center was being used to plan and carry out Islamic Jihad terrorist acts against the State of Israel,” the military added.

Earlier, the Observatory had said that “the Israeli air force fired two missiles at a building in the Damascus neighborhood of Dumar, killing at least one person” in an area mostly inhabited by Palestinian leaders.

For the same strike, an Islamic Jihad member who was at the scene of the airstrike told The Associated Press that the attack on the outskirts of Damascus targeted the home of the group’s leader, Ziad Nakaleh. The same man said the apartment has been empty for years, adding that Nakaleh is not in Syria. Asked if anyone was killed in the strike, he replied that “the house was empty.”