Residential building destroyed in attack that killed IRGC members in Syria
Al Jazeera
An apparent Israeli air strike in the Syrian capital killed five of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard military advisers.
An air raid on the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the Syrian capital, Damascus, tore into a multistorey residential building and left several people killed.
The target of Saturday’s attack was an intelligence unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), sources told Al Jazeera.
The IRGC said an attack by Israeli fighter jets killed a number of Syrian forces and five of its “military advisers”.
It identified its members who were killed immediately as Hojjatollah Omidvar, Ali Aghazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi and Saied Karimi, without sharing their ranks. It later said another member, Mohammad Amin Samadi, also died after succumbing to his wounds.
Iran’s foreign ministry blamed Israel for the strike and said it “reserves the right to respond”. Israel has yet to comment.
