death toll from strike on Damascus attributed to Israel rises to 12

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strike targeted a “meeting of pro-Iran leaders” in the Syrian capital.

An airstrike blamed on Israel killed 12 people, including five advisers to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, in Damascus (Syria) on Saturday January 20, according to a new report provided Sunday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) . At the end of December, 19 pro-Iran fighters were killed in southern Syria in a series of bombings attributed to Israel.

The strike targeted and destroyed a four-story building in the heart of the Mazzé district, in the west of the capital, where a “meeting of pro-Iran leaders”indicated the NGO based in the United Kingdom, but which relies on a vast network of sources in Syria.

According to the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s ideological army, five of their “military advisors” And “members of the Syrian forces” were killed in the attack carried out, according to them, with “combat aircraft”.

A long series of unclaimed strikes

According to the OSDH, the death toll increased by 10 to 12 deaths after the removal of two bodies from the rubble: five Iranian advisers and seven pro-Iranian fighters including four Syrians, two Lebanese and an Iraqi.

In recent weeks, Israel has been accused of killing, during targeted operations, a senior Iranian official in Syria and Hamas’ number two in Lebanon, raising fears of an extension of its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. triggered on October 7 by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil.

Since the start of the war in neighboring Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes there, mainly targeting pro-Iran forces, including Lebanese Hezbollah, allies of the Syrian regime, as well as the Syrian army.