At least two senior Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) advisers were killed in an Israeli raid on a neighborhood in the Syrian capital, the Iranian Mehr News Agency reported on Saturday.
“An informed source told Mehr News Agency that two senior Iranian military advisers were martyred in the Zionist strike on Damascus on Saturday,” the agency reported.
Meanwhile, the Syrian SANA news agency confirmed the attack without providing details regarding the casualties.
Israel on Saturday launched an attack that targeted a residential building in the Al-Mazah neighborhood, west of Damascus, the agency reported.
A nongovernmental organization, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said in a statement that a violent explosion was heard in the Al-Mazah neighborhood, west of the capital Damascus, next to the Al-Muhammadi Mosque, as a result of an Israeli missile targeting a 4-story building.
According to initial reports, the attack resulted in the death of five persons, the statement added.
The attack also resulted in the complete destruction of the building, said the group.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli side regarding the attack.
Since the onset of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has occasionally carried out attacks on military positions belonging to Iran-backed groups and the Syrian army in Syria.
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