An Israeli airstrike on Monday in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, killed a top Iranian general, Iranian state media said.
The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a longtime adviser to the Revolutionary Guard Corps, an Iranian paramilitary group, in Syria, comes as clashes between Hezbollah and Israel along the Lebanese-Israeli border continue to escalate. intensify and there are fears that the war between Israel and Hamas could lead to spillover. Israeli strikes killed two more generals earlier this month in Syria.
Israel struck the neighborhood of Sayida Zeinab, located near a Shiite Muslim shrine, Iran’s official IRNA news agency and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Great Britain-based opposition war monitor, said. -Brittany. IRNA described Mr Mousavi as a close companion of General Qassim Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.
Neither the Israeli military nor Syrian state media immediately issued a statement on the attack.
Although IRNA did not provide further details of the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that the Israeli army targeted Mr. Mousavi after he entered a farm in the area, which was allegedly one of several Hezbollah offices. The Lebanese militant group, alongside Iran and Russia, has played a key military role in keeping President Bashar al-Assad’s government in power throughout the Syrian conflict.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in recent years against targets in government-controlled areas in war-torn Syria.
The country generally does not recognize its airstrikes on Syria. But when it does, it says it targets Iranian-backed groups that have supported the al-Assad government.