{"id":17709,"date":"2024-01-20T11:08:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T11:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=17709"},"modified":"2024-01-20T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T11:19:32","slug":"israeli-strike-on-damascus-kills-four-iranian-revolutionary-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/01\/israeli-strike-on-damascus-kills-four-iranian-revolutionary-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strike on Damascus kills four Iranian Revolutionary Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – An Israeli missile strike on Syria’s capital Damascus on Saturday killed four members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, including the head of the force’s information unit in Syria, a security source in the regional pro-Syria alliance told Reuters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Israel has long pursued a bombing campaign against Iran-linked targets in Syria. But it has shifted to deadlier strikes in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by militants of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza.<\/p>\n

Syrian state media said a building in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of Damascus was targeted in a likely Israeli attack, without giving further details. Other local media in Syria said explosions were heard across the Syrian capital.<\/p>\n

The security source, part of a network of groups close to Syria’s government and its major ally Iran, said the multi-storey building was used by Iranian advisers supporting President Bashar al-Assad’s government, and that it was entirely flattened by “precision-targeted Israeli missiles”.<\/p>\n

Iran’s state-run Press TV said two Iranian Guards military advisers were killed in the Israeli strike on Damascus.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from Israel.<\/p>\n

Essam Al-Amin, head of the Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, told Reuters that his hospital had received one corpse and three wounded people, including a woman, following Saturday’s attack.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad told Reuters that no members of their group were wounded in the strike, following reports that some were at the bombed-out building.<\/p>\n

In December, an Israeli strike killed two Guards members in Damascus, and another on Dec. 25 killed a\u00a0senior adviser to the Guards who was overseeing military coordination between Syria and Iran.<\/p>\n

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