Israel carried out an airstrike in Syria this Monday evening, targeting Iran’s consulate building in Damascus and killing at least 6 residents.
According to a report by Syria’s official news agency SANA, Israel carried out a deadly airstrike this Monday evening, targeting the Iranian consulate building in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus. As the report noted, the attack has killed “at least 6 residents” in the building. The Iranian consulate building was next to the Iranian embassy in Syria.
Iranian media also confirmed the news and reported that the Monday attack “completely destroyed the annex building to the embassy, and that the ambassador was unharmed.”
“Hossein Akbari, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus, and his family were not harmed in the Israeli attack,” Iran’s Nour news agency said in an immediate report issued after the attack.
Iranian IRGC commander among the casualties of the attack
One Lebanese security source told Reuters a few hours after the attack that Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, was among the casualties.
Israel has yet refused to comment on the matter. “We do not comment on reports in the foreign media,” an Israeli military spokesperson said.
In recent days, Israel has increased its air attacks against targets in Syria, the latest of which took place this Friday and killed 53 people in Syria, including 38 soldiers and seven members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
