An airstrike on the Mazzeh district of the Syrian capital Damascus destroyed a multi-storey residential constructing, killing a number of folks.
The goal of Saturday’s assault was an intelligence unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), sources informed Al Jazeera.
The IRGC mentioned an assault by Israeli fighter jets killed 5 of its “army advisors” and quite a lot of Syrian forces.
It recognized its members who had been instantly killed as Hojjatollah Omidvar, Ali Aghazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi and Saied Karimi, with out sharing their ranks. It was later mentioned that one other member, Mohammad Amin Samadi, additionally died after succumbing to his accidents.
Iran’s International Ministry blamed Israel for the assault and mentioned it “reserves the suitable to reply.” Israel has not but commented.
In response to Iranian state media, the assault was carried out with at the very least 4 missiles.
Saturday’s assault comes amid rising tensions within the area and Israel’s offensive on Gaza, which has killed almost 25,000 folks.
