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On 1 April 2024, Israel conducted an airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, destroying the building housing its consular section. [5] [1] [6] Sixteen people were killed in the strike, including eight officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two Syrian civilians.
[4] Israel told the U.S. that if Iran were to launch a strike from its territory against Israel in retaliation, it would prompt a harsh response from Israel, potentially escalating the current conflict to a higher intensity. [5] [6] Four anonymous Israeli officials have confirmed that Israel has been behind the attack. [7]
On 18 February, targets in Damascus were struck by alleged Israeli missiles from the Golan Heights. [5] The Kafr Sousa neighborhood was struck [ 6 ] near highly guarded Iranian installations. [ 7 ] According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), the strike hit a warehouse used by Iranian and Hezbollah fighters.
Why did the attack take place? Israel and Iran are long-standing rivals and have been engaged in a shadow war for years. Israel’s war on Hamas, waged since the militant group attacked Israel on ...
Israel has stepped up a years-long campaign of airstrikes against Iranian or Iran-backed targets in Syria since the onset of the Gaza war, but Monday's apparent strike was one of the boldest yet.
Back in April, Iran responded to Israel’s bombing of what it alleged was a diplomatic facility in Damascus, which had killed several high-ranking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders.
The White Helmets reported that: "there was no evidence of unusual toxic fumes during the extinguishing of the fire, and no cases of suffocation were observed among civilians" [64] Israel also reportedly launched airstrikes on Syrian intelligence and customs headquarters, with explosions reported at their locations in Damascus.
DUBAI (Reuters) -An Iranian Revolutionary Guards adviser in Damascus was killed on Friday in an Israeli missile strike that targeted a southern district of the Syrian capital, semi-official ...