Four IRGC commanders killed in alleged Israeli airstrike, Iranian media claims

DAMASCUS – Four members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed  in an alleged Israeli air strike on Damascus on Saturday, including a senior figure in its information unit, a security source in the regional pro-Syrian alliance told Reuters.اضافة اعلان

The strike, using precision-guided missiles according to the source, flattened a multi-story building in the neighborhood of Mazzeh in the Syrian capital.

Four members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in an alleged Israeli air strike on Damascus on Saturday, including a senior figure in its information unit, a security source in the regional pro-Syrian alliance told Reuters.

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The security source, part of a network of groups close to Syria's government and its major ally Iran, said the multi-story building was used by Iranian advisers supporting President Bashar Al-Assad's government, and that it was entirely flattened by "precision-targeted Israeli missiles."

There has been no immediate confirmation from Israel.

#Damascus The Head of the IRGC intel unit in Syria, Haj Sadeq, his deputy, and 3 others were killed by izrael#Iran holds the right to retaliate and will

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Essam Al-Amin, head of the Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, told local Syrian outlet Al-Watan Online that his hospital had received one corpse and three wounded people, including a woman, following Saturday's attack.

Syrian state media said a likely Israeli attack had targeted a building in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus, without giving further details.


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