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🇸🇾🇮🇷🇮🇱 Multiple Dead After Israeli Attack on Damascus, Including Four Iranian Officers
Iran has confirmed that among the casualties of the Israeli attack on a residential building in Damascus are four officers of the Revolutionary Guards, who were serving as military advisors in Syria. The exact number of casualties is still unknown, affecting both military personnel and civilians. In the Israeli attack on Damascus last Saturday (as reported by RT DE), Iranian sources state that four Revolutionary Guards officers, serving as military advisors in Syria, lost their lives. This information comes from an official statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an elite unit of the Iranian Armed Forces, disseminated by the Tasnim news agency.
The statement reads, in part:
“The brutal, criminal regime of Israel has once again carried out an attack on Damascus, the capital of Syria. As a result of the airstrike by fighter jets of the usurping (Israeli) aggressor regime, several members of the Syrian armed forces and four military advisors of the Islamic Republic of Iran were killed.”
According to the agency, several Syrian civilians also fell victim to the Israeli airstrike on the Al-Mezza district in Damascus. Allegedly, in retaliation for the airstrike on Damascus, Shiite militias have targeted the Al-Asad airbase in Western Iraq, used by the US-led international coalition forces, with over 20 rockets, as reported by Al Hadath. The rockets were fired from the nearby area of Al-Baghdadi in the western Al Anbar province in the afternoon. Iraqi security forces are currently searching the suspected launch area. There is currently no information on the damages or casualties caused by the rocket attack.
Prior to this, Shiite militias had warned the United States that they would intensify their armed operations in Syria and Iraq because “Washington continues to support the Israeli army, which is killing civilians in the Gaza Strip and Southern Lebanon.”
As reported, a four-story residential building in the Al-Mezza district of Damascus was hit and collapsed in the morning by an Israeli ballistic missile or a rocket fired from Israel. The Israeli army routinely conducts attacks on the territory of the Arab Republic. Russia criticizes this practice as “a gross violation of the sovereignty of this state and the fundamental norms of international law.”