and Iran said Monday that a building adjacent to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus was hit by an Israeli airstrike.
What do we know so far?
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, in comments carried by the official SANA news agency, strongly condemned “this heinous terrorist attack” on the building which killed a “number of innocent people.” Mekdad said the attack would not be able to impact relations between Iran and Syria.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that eight people were killed in the strike. The Syria monitor group relies on Syrian sources on the ground.
Iranian media reported that a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Mohammed Reha Zahedi, was killed in the attack. Zahedi belongs to the Quds Force of the IRGC, which specializes in unconventional warfare abroad and was once helmed by assassinated Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani.
Israel has not yet published any official remarks on the incident.
“We do not comment on reports in the foreign media,” an Israeli military spokesperson told Reuters news agency.
Israel frequently conducts airstrikes on what it calls Iranian-affiliated targets in Syria. The Syrian government, along with its allies and Russia, have often accused Israel of violating international law with the strikes.
wd/sms (Reuters, AFP)
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