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 drive’s data unit in Syria, a safety supply within the regional pro-Syria alliance informed Reuters.
Israel has lengthy pursued a bombing marketing campaign in opposition to Iran-linked targets in Syria. But it has shifted to deadlier strikes within the wake of the Oct. 7 assault on Israel by militants of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza.
Syrian state media mentioned a constructing within the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus was focused in a probable Israeli assault, with out giving additional particulars. Other native media in Syria mentioned explosions had been heard 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 army advisors had been killed within the Israeli strike on Damascus.
There was no rapid remark from Israel.
Essam Al-Amin, head of the Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, informed Reuters that his hospital had obtained one corpse and three wounded individuals, together with a girl, following Saturday’s assault.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad informed Reuters that no members of their group had been wounded within the strike, following reviews that some had 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 army coordination between Syria and Iran.