2024-01-20 20:46:00
Iran has announced that 4 security forces officers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus.
According to the country’s state television, Israel carried out an airstrike on Saturday in the protected area of Maze, west of Damascus, where foreign embassies are located. In this attack, a residential building in the area was completely leveled. In this, 4 high-ranking officers of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed. . The TV reported that they were staying in Syria as security advisers. This information was also confirmed by the Syrian State TV.
According to a statement issued by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
5 Iranians killed in airstrike in Damascus on Saturday; 3 of them are the army commanders of Iran. Apart from this, 4 more have gone missing in this attack. It has been mentioned in the report that a consultation meeting was taking place in the building when the airstrike took place. Search operations are ongoing for those who may have been trapped in the rubble of the building. However, Israel has not reported anything about the attack. Israel does not openly say anything about its military operations in Syria. However, Israel continues to say that it does not want Iran to gain military influence in that country, and that it will take action to prevent it. In that way, the Israeli army has been attacking Iranian-backed forces in Syria from time to time. However, that country does not admit it openly. Therefore, it is believed that Israel has also carried out the air attack currently being conducted in Damascus. The Hamas forces, supported by Iran, infiltrated into Israel from Gaza on October 7, where they massacred about 1,200 people. In response, Israel has been waging a heavy-handed offensive in Gaza. In this war, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group supporting Hamas, has attacked Israeli positions. Likewise, the Iran-backed Houthi militias, which rule large parts of Yemen, have been crossing the Red Sea to support Hamas. They are attacking the ships. In addition to this, it is said that missiles are being launched from Syria into the Golan area under the control of Israel. Due to these activities, there was a fear that the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza would expand into a regional war. Saleh al-Aruri, the second-ranking leader of Hamas, and other key commanders of Hezbollah were killed. In this context, it is feared that 4 Iranian military officers were killed in an airstrike in the Syrian capital, further increasing the risk of regional war.
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