1/20/2024-|Last update: 1/20/202402:11 PM (Mecca time)
Today, Saturday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced that 4 of its military advisors were killed in an Israeli raid on the Mezzeh neighborhood in the Syrian capital, Damascus, while Iranian media reported that the Syria Square intelligence official in the Quds Force and his deputy were killed in that Israeli raid.
While the Iranian Mehr Agency said that the Israeli raid in Damascus resulted in the killing of two senior advisors to the Revolutionary Guards, Syrian media said that 4 were killed in the raid.
For its part, Reuters said that 4 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – including the head of the information unit – were killed in the Israeli raid, and the agency quoted a source in a pro-Syrian regional coalition as saying that the attack, in which “precisely targeted missiles” were used, led to the destruction of a building. Multi-storey building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in the Syrian capital.
Initial pictures of the attack that targeted a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus, which the Syrian News Agency said was most likely caused by an Israeli aggression.#News pic.twitter.com/kQVfQOv5mu
– Al Jazeera Channel (@AJArabic) January 20, 2024
For his part, the representative of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Syria, Ismail Al-Sindawi, told the Syrian newspaper “Al-Watan” that “all members of the movement in Damascus are fine, and the aggression that targeted a building in Damascus did not hit any of the movement’s offices.”
Al-Sindwai stressed – in a statement to websites – that the building targeted by Israel in the Syrian capital has nothing to do with the Jihad movement, stressing that the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, is “fine.”
The Syrian News Agency (SANA) said that an attack targeted a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus, noting that the attack “mostly resulted from Israeli aggression.”
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2024-01-20 11:03:45
