At least two people were killed and several were injured on Monday in an alleged strike on an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps site on the outskirts of Damascus, Syrian and Iranian media reported.
Syria’s official state media agency, SANA, citing security officials, blamed the “Zionist enemy” and said several strikes were launched from the Golan Heights toward the Syrian capital.
Iran state media said two people were killed in the strike near the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine complex on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
A source in Iran’s regional alliance told Reuters that the strike hit a location used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. The semi-official Tasnim news agency described the site as an Iranian military advisory center in Syria.
An official with one of the Iranian-backed groups, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss military activities, told the Associated Press that two Syrian citizens were killed in Monday’s strike. No Hezbollah members were hurt, the official said.
An Israeli military spokesperson declined to comment on the explosions. The IDF rarely comments on alleged strikes in Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition-linked war monitor, put the death toll at six; however, its figures have sometimes proved unreliable.
“Israeli strikes targeted a base belonging to Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, killing six people” including pro-Iran fighters, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the SOHR, adding that it was unclear whether civilians were among the dead.
The strike is the third in two months blamed on Israel and targeting Iranian infrastructure and officers in Damascus.
Syria says Iranian advisers killed in alleged Israeli strike on Damascus
Syrian state media says “a number of Iranian advisers” were killed in an Israeli attack south of the capital, in a rare acknowledgment by Damascus of Iranian casualties in alleged Israeli strikes on Syrian territory.
It also says civilians were killed but does not give a figure for either set of fatalities.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency reports that “the Zionist regime (Israel) targeted an Iranian advisory center in the Sayyida Zeinab area.”
Iran’s ambassador to Syria, however, claims there were no Iranian casualties in the strike and no advisory center targeted.
Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, claims that the “Israeli strikes targeted a base belonging to Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, killing seven people” including pro-Iran fighters.
The war monitor has been accused of inflating casualty numbers in the past.
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