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The number of deaths in the attack attributed to Israel in Damascus rises to 12, according to NGO

The death toll from yesterday’s attack, Saturday, attributed to Israel against a residential building in Damascus increased to twelve, including five commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported today.

Among the deceased are “five Iranians, four Syrians hired by Iranian militias, two Lebanese and one Iraqi“, according to the NGO, whose headquarters are in UK but has a wide network of collaborators in the area.

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The attack, of which Israel has not spoken out until now, caused the total collapse of the attacked four-story building located in the neighborhood of Mezzein the west of Damascus and one of the wealthiest in the Syrian capital.

In that district, in addition to embassies and UN offices, members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guardthe Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollahaccording to the Observatory.

The organization also indicated that Syrian Intelligence carried out a “security campaign”in the area and detained two people, including an officer, although the Syrian government has not confirmed these arrests.

In this way, always according to the Observatory, the number of soldiers killed by at least fourteen Israeli attacks on Syrian territory since the beginning of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic group increases to 90. Hamas in Link the past October 7ththe vast majority being members of Hezbollah.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahianstated after the attack that Iranian military advisors will continue to carry out their activities in the region and accused Israel of being “the main accomplice of terrorists and the main enemy of security in the region”.

Tehran is a key ally of Damascus in the war in Syriawhere Tehran sent soldiers and military advisors, as well as providing economic and political support to its main ally in Middle East.

Source: Elcomercio

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