Israeli missile strike on Damascus kills Iranian Guards official
Damascus (Quds News Network) – A missile strike carried out by the occupying Israeli regime on Syria’s capital, Damascus, this morning resulted in the killing of a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and left several others injured, according to a security source, as reported by Reuters.
Syrian state media noted a probable Israeli attack targeting a building in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus, offering limited details. Additional local media in Syria reported hearing explosions throughout the Syrian capital.
BREAKING| Iran's Mehr News Agency reports that two senior advisers in the Revolutionary Guards have been killed in an Israeli strike on Al Mazzeh neighbourhood in the Syrian capital city, Damascus this morning. pic.twitter.com/KHT5AArD8R
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 20, 2024
The security source, associated with a network of groups closely aligned with Syria’s government and its primary ally Iran, revealed that the targeted multi-storey building was completely destroyed by “precision-targeted Israeli missiles.”
Essam Al-Amin, the head of Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, informed local Syrian outlet Al-Watan Online that the hospital received one fatality and three wounded individuals, including a woman, following the attack on Saturday.
Despite initial reports suggesting the presence of members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the bombed-out building, a spokesman for the movement later confirmed that none of their members were injured in the strike.
