The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights introduced Wednesday that the dying toll from this week’s Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus has risen to 16.
The assault destroyed the embassy’s consular annex, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards mentioned seven workers members had been killed, together with two senior officers.
“The dying toll from the Israeli assault on the Iranian embassy annex has risen to 16,” mentioned Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the U.Okay.-based observatory, including that the dying toll had beforehand been introduced at 14. Ta.
He mentioned the useless included eight Iranians, 5 Syrians and one member of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, all of whom had been fighters.
Two civilians, a girl and her son, had been additionally killed, the observatory added.
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The Observatory mentioned one of many useless was named Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a pacesetter of the Revolutionary Guards’ Overseas Quds Force in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.
The Damascus assault was the fifth in every week to hit Syria, which helps President Bashar al-Assad, who’s backed by Israel’s longtime enemy Iran.
Hezbollah fighters have been deployed to Syria for years to assist Assad’s forces in the course of the civil struggle.
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The Damascus assault adopted one other Israeli assault final Friday in Syria that killed 53 individuals, together with 38 troopers and 7 Hezbollah members, the Observatory mentioned.
According to the Monitor, this was the very best variety of Syrian army casualties from an Israeli assault because the Israeli-Hamas struggle started within the Gaza Strip on October 7.
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