Four members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, including the chief of the force’s information section, were killed by an Israeli missile assault on Syria’s capital Damascus on Saturday, a security source in the regional pro-Syria coalition told Reuters.
The Revolutionary Guards in Tehran indicated that more information will be released later. They named the four military advisors who perished in the Israeli hit, although they did not specify their rank. According to Iranian official media, the structure under attack was the capital of Syria’s house for Iranian advisers.
Israel, which has long carried out a bombing campaign against Iran’s military and security presence in Syria, did not immediately respond. After the terrorist assault on Israel on October 7th, it has changed to more lethal attacks.Syrian state media reported an Israeli “aerial attack” on a building in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of Damascus and said Syrian air defences had shot down a number of missiles.
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 completely flattened by “precision-targeted Israeli missiles”.
The source said a fifth person was also killed but could not immediately identify the nationality.
Essam Al-Amin, head of the Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, told newsmen that his hospital had received one corpse and three wounded people, including a woman, following Saturday’s attack.
