Five persons linked to IRGC killed by Israeli strike in Damascus: SOHR

Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency reported that two senior IRGC advisers were killed in the strike.

Wladimir van Wilgenburg 2024/01/20 12:39

An Israeli strike on Damascus killed five people in a building where "Iran-aligned leaders" were meeting on January 20, a war monitor said,(Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – An Israeli airstrike in the Al-Mazah neighborhood, west of the Syria capital Damascus led to the death of five persons, most likely linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency later reported that two senior advisers in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in the strike.

Later the Sabereen News channel on Telegram claimed the head of the IRGC intelligence unit in Syria, Yousef Omidzadeh aka Haj Sadegh, and his deputy, Haj Gholam (also known as Haj Muharram) were killed.

SOHR said the neighborhood is known as a security neighborhood and includes leaders from IRGC and Palestinian leaders close to Iran.

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