INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
An Israeli missile strike on Syria&s capital Damascus on Saturday killed four members of Iran&s Revolutionary Guards, including the head of
the force&s information unit in Syria, Reuters reported.Israel has long pursued a bombing campaign against Iran-linked targets in Syria
But it has shifted to deadlier strikes in the wake of the Oct
7 attack on Israel by Hamas from Gaza.Syrian state media said a building in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of Damascus was targeted in a likely
Israeli attack, without giving further details
Other local media in Syria said explosions were heard across the Syrian capital.The security source, part of a network of groups close to
Syria&s government and its major ally Iran, said the multi-storey building was used by Iranian advisers supporting President Bashar
al-Assad&s government, and that it was entirely flattened by &precision-targeted Israeli missiles&.Iran&s state-run Press TV said two
Iranian Guards military advisers were killed in the Israeli strike on Damascus.There was no immediate comment from Israel.Essam Al-Amin,
head of the Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, told Reuters that his hospital had received one corpse and three wounded people, including a
woman, following Saturday&s attack.A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad told Reuters that no members of their group were wounded in
the strike, following reports that some were at the bombed-out building.In December, an Israeli strike killed two Guards members in
Damascus, and another on Dec
25 killed a senior adviser to the Guards who was overseeing military coordination between Syria and Iran.The post Israeli strike on
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