At least ten people were killed, including five members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Syria. The crossfire in Lebanon also intensified, raising tension and fear that the war in the Gaza Strip will expand in the region.
The attack in Syria was against a residential building in a neighborhood in the southwest of Damascus, a security zone where several international diplomatic headquarters are located, including the embassies of Iran and Lebanon, although there are also residential buildings.
The Iranian condemnation
Iran affirmed that it has the right to respond to Israel for the death of five members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard in the attack. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has the right to respond to the organized terrorism of the false Zionist regime at the appropriate time and place,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Naser Kananí said in a statement published on the X social network.
The diplomat assured that the death of the soldiers will not be in vain and asked international organizations and other countries to condemn Israel. He also indicated that The death of the members of the Revolutionary Guard “clearly shows the connection between the terrorist regime and the Islamic State in the region”.
The deaths of the Iranian military come after early Tuesday morning, Iran bombed alleged Israeli targets on Iraqi soil, where two people died. In a statement, the Revolutionary Guard then reported that the place it attacked with missiles was the center for developing espionage operations and planning terrorist actions in the region, and especially against Iran. Tehran also bombed Pakistan and justified these attacks by the Kerman attacks, which left 94 Iranians dead this month. Additionally, 11 police officers were killed in an attack on a police station in Iran. And Iranian commanders have also died in recent weeks in Syria and Iraq.
Crossfire in Lebanon
EThe Israeli Army continued attacking posts of the Shiite group Hezbollah in Lebanon on Saturday, while crossfire continues on the common border. “Israeli fighter jets attacked terrorist infrastructure, an observation post and a launch site belonging to the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the Al Adisa area of southern Lebanon,” a military spokesman said in a statement.
In turn, Israeli tanks fired at night to eliminate a threat in Har Dov in the border area between both countries, an area affected by almost daily crossfire between the Israeli Army and Hezbollah, and Palestinian militias in Lebanon, which It has been repeated almost since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas.
The Israeli Army indicated that there were at least two projectiles fired from Lebanon towards its territory. All this occurs when There was also a drone attack on a vehicle that killed two people in the town of Al Bazouriyah, southern Lebanon., attributed to Israel. According to the Lebanese National News Agency, the identities of the dead are unknown because the bodies were completely charred. According to the local press, the deceased were members of Hezbollah..
This January there was already a selective Israeli attack in Beirut that killed the number two of the Islamist group Hamas, Saleh Al Arouri, which further escalated regional tension and raised fears that an open war would break out. On January 8, Wissam Hassan Taweel, a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan special forces, was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in was hit by an Israeli projectile in southern Lebanon. He was the highest-ranking casualty in the group’s ranks since the start of the crossfire with Israel more than three months ago.
