DAMASCUS/BEIRUT: An Israeli missile strike on Syria's capital Damascus on Saturday killed four members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, including the head of the force's information unit, a security source in the regional pro-Syria alliance told Reuters.
In Tehran, the Revolutionary Guards named four military advisers who were killed in the Israeli strike, but did not give their rank, and said further details would be announced later. Iranian state television said the targeted building was the residence of Iranian advisers in the Syrian capital.
People gathered at the site of the damages left by the Israel strike in Damascus. Photo: Handout /Reuters
There was no immediate comment from Israel, which has long pursued a bombing campaign against Iran's military and security presence in Syria. It has shifted to deadlier strikes in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by militants of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza., opens a new tab
Syrian state media reported an Israeli "aerial attack" on a building in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of Damascus and said Syrian air defences had shot down several missiles.
The security source, part of a network of groups close to Syria's government and its major ally Iran, said the multi-storey building was used by Iranian advisers supporting President Bashar al-Assad's government, and that it was completely flattened by "precision-targeted Israeli missiles".
The source said a fifth person was also killed but could not immediately identify the nationality.
Essam Al-Amin, head of the Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, told Reuters that his hospital had received one corpse and three wounded people, including a woman, following Saturday's attack.
A Reuters witness in Mazzeh saw ambulances and fire trucks gathered around the site of the strike, which had been cordoned off. Rescue operations for people stuck under the rubble continued through the day.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed Palestinian faction present in Syria and Lebanon, condemned Saturday's air strike but told Reuters that none of their members were wounded, dismissing reports that some were at the bombed-out building.
Iran and its military allies in Syria have entrenched themselves in wide areas of eastern, southern and northern Syria and several suburbs around the capital, both to shore up Assad against domestic foes and encroach on arch-enemy Israel.
In December, an Israeli air strike killed two Guards members, and another near Damascus on Dec. 25 killed a senior adviser to the Guards who was overseeing military coordination between Syria and Iran.
Israel responded to the shock Hamas assault on Oct. 7 by launching a devastating air and ground war in Gaza to eradicate its ruling Islamist group. The conflict has reverberated across the Middle East with violence surging in Syria, Lebanon, northern Iraq and the Red Sea.
In Lebanon, the country's heavily armed, Iranian proxy Hezbollah as well as local wings of Palestinian militant groups have fired rockets across the border at Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
On Saturday, an Israeli strike in south Lebanon killed two members of Hamas as they were travelling in their car, three security sources told Reuters.
以色列空襲導致大馬士革伊朗伊斯蘭革命衛隊四名成員死亡——報告稱
大馬士革/貝魯特：親敘利亞地區聯盟的安全消息人士告訴路透社，以色列週六對敘利亞首都大馬士革發動飛彈襲擊，造成伊朗革命衛隊精銳四名成員死亡，包括該部隊資訊部門負責人。
在德黑蘭，革命衛隊公佈了在以色列襲擊中喪生的四名軍事顧問的名字，但沒有透露他們的軍銜，並表示將在稍後公佈更多細節。 伊朗國家電視台稱，目標建築是伊朗顧問在敘利亞首都的住所。
以色列沒有立即發表評論，以色列長期以來一直對伊朗在敘利亞的軍事和安全存在進行轟炸。 10 月 7 日，伊朗支持的巴勒斯坦伊斯蘭組織哈馬斯的武裝分子從加沙對以色列發動襲擊，襲擊已轉向更加致命。, 打開一個新選項卡
敘利亞官方媒體報道稱，以色列對大馬士革馬澤附近的一棟建築進行了“空襲”，並稱敘利亞防空系統擊落了幾枚飛彈。
這位安全消息人士是與敘利亞政府及其主要盟友伊朗關係密切的組織網絡的一部分，他表示，這座多層建築是由支持巴沙爾·阿薩德總統政府的伊朗顧問使用的，並且被「精確定位的攻擊」徹底夷為平地。以色列飛彈」。
消息人士稱，有第五人被殺，但無法立即確認其國籍。
大馬士革莫瓦薩特醫院院長埃薩姆·阿明告訴路透社，週六的襲擊事件發生後，他的醫院收到了一具屍體和三名傷者，其中包括一名婦女。
路透社在馬澤的一名目擊者看到，救護車和消防車聚集在罷工地點周圍，該地點已被封鎖。 對被困在廢墟下的人們的救援行動持續了一整天。
巴勒斯坦伊斯蘭聖戰組織是伊朗支持的駐敘利亞和黎巴嫩的巴勒斯坦派別，它譴責週六的空襲，但告訴路透社，其成員沒有人受傷，並否認了一些人在被炸毀的建築物內的報道。
伊朗及其在敘利亞的軍事盟友已在敘利亞東部、南部和北部的廣大地區以及首都週邊的幾個郊區建立了據點，既是為了支持阿薩德對抗國內敵人，也是為了侵犯宿敵以色列。
12 月，以色列的一次空襲導致兩名衛隊成員死亡，12 月 25 日，大馬士革附近的另一名衛隊成員喪生，一名負責監督敘利亞和伊朗之間軍事協調的衛隊高級顧問被殺。
10 月 7 日，以色列對哈馬斯的襲擊作出回應，在加沙發動了毀滅性的空中和地面戰爭，以剷除其統治的伊斯蘭組織。 這場衝突在整個中東地區產生了迴響，敘利亞、黎巴嫩、伊拉克北部和紅海的暴力事件激增。
在黎巴嫩，該國全副武裝的伊朗代理人真主黨以及巴勒斯坦激進組織的當地派別跨越邊境向以色列發射火箭，以聲援加薩的巴勒斯坦人。
三名安全消息人士告訴路透社，週六，以色列在黎巴嫩南部發動襲擊，兩名哈馬斯成員在開車時喪生。
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