Israeli raid on Damascus kills 4 IRGC advisors

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Saturday that four of its military advisers were killed in an Israeli raid on the Mezze neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus, while Iranian media reported that an Al-Quds Force Syria intelligence official and his deputy were killed in the Israeli raid.

"While Iran's Mehr news agency said the Israeli strike in Damascus killed two senior Revolutionary Guard advisers, Syrian media said four were killed."

Reuters said that four Iranian Revolutionary Guards - including the head of the information unit - were killed in the Israeli raid. The agency quoted a source in a pro-Syrian regional alliance as saying that the attack, which used "precision-guided missiles," destroyed a multi-story building in the Mezze neighborhood of the Syrian capital.

The attack on a building in Damascus did not hit any of the group's offices," Ismail al-Sundawi, representative of the Islamic Jihad in Syria, told the Syrian newspaper Al-Watan.

Al-Sindawi stressed in a statement to websites that the building targeted by Israel in the Syrian capital has nothing to do with Islamic Jihad, stressing that Islamic Jihad Secretary General Ziad Al-Nakhla is "fine."

Syria's state-run news agency (SANA) said the attack targeted a residential building in the Mezze neighborhood of Damascus, saying it was "probably the result of Israeli aggression."

Source: Al-Jazeera + agencies