BEIRUT (Reuters) -An Israeli missile strike on Syria’s capital Damascus on Saturday killed a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and wounded others, a safety supply within the regional pro-Syria alliance informed Reuters.
Syrian state media mentioned a possible Israeli assault had focused a constructing within the Mazzeh neighbourhood of Damascus, with out giving additional particulars. Different native media in Syria reported explosions heard throughout the Syrian capital.
The safety supply, a part of a community of teams near Syria’s authorities and its main ally Iran, mentioned the multi-storey constructing was utilized by Iranian advisers supporting President Bashar al-Assad’s authorities, and that it was solely flattened by “precision-targeted Israeli missiles”.
There was no speedy remark from Israel.
Essam Al-Amin, head of the Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, informed native Syrian outlet Al-Watan On-line that his hospital had obtained one corpse and three wounded individuals, together with a lady, following Saturday’s assault.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad informed Reuters that no members of their group had been wounded within the strike, following reviews that some had been on the bombed-out constructing.
Israel has lengthy pursued a bombing marketing campaign towards Iran-linked targets in Syria. However it has shifted to deadlier strikes within the wake of the Oct. 7 assault on Israel by militants of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza.
In December, an Israeli strike killed two Guards members, and one other on Dec. 25 killed a senior adviser to the Guards who was overseeing army coordination between Syria and Iran.