Syrian state media says “a number of Iranian advisers” were killed in an Israeli attack south of the capital, in a rare acknowledgment by Damascus of Iranian casualties in alleged Israeli strikes on Syrian territory.
It also says civilians were killed but does not give a figure for either set of fatalities.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency reports that “the Zionist regime (Israel) targeted an Iranian advisory center in the Sayyida Zeinab area.”
Iran’s ambassador to Syria, however, claims there were no Iranian casualties in the strike and no advisory center targeted.
Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, claims that the “Israeli strikes targeted a base belonging to Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, killing seven people” including pro-Iran fighters.
The war monitor has been accused of inflating casualty numbers in the past.
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