BEIRUT/DAMASCUS, Jan 20 (Reuters)
–
An Israeli missile strike on Syria’s capital Damascus on Saturday killed 4 members of
Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards, together with the top of the pressure’s info unit in Syria, a safety supply within the regional pro-Syria alliance advised Reuters.
Israel has lengthy pursued a bombing marketing campaign towards
Iran-linked targets in Syria. But it has shifted to lethal strikes within the wake of the Oct. 7 assault on Israel by militants of the
Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza.
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Syrian state media mentioned a constructing within the Mazzeh neighbourhood of Damascus
was focused in a possible Israeli assault, with out giving additional particulars. Other native media in Syria
mentionedexplosions
have beenheard throughout the Syrian capital.
The safety supply, a part of a community of teams near Syria’s authorities and its main ally
Iran, mentioned the multi-storey constructing was utilized by
Iranian advisers supporting President Bashar al-Assad’s authorities, and that it was fully flattened by “precision-targeted Israeli missiles”.
Iran‘s state-run Press TV mentioned two
Iranian Guards navy advisers have been killed within the Israeli strike on Damascus.
There was no instant remark from Israel.
Essam Al-Amin, head of the Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, advised Reuters that his hospital had acquired one corpse and three wounded folks, together with a girl, following Saturday’s assault.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad advised Reuters that no members of their group have been wounded within the strike, following stories that some have been on the bombed-out constructing.
In December, an Israeli strike killed two Guards members
in Damascus, and one other on Dec. 25 killed a senior adviser to the Guards who was overseeing navy coordination between Syria and
Iran.