Israeli airstrike in Syria kills four Iranian Revolutionary Guards

An Israeli missile strike on a residential building in Syria’s capital Damascus on Saturday killed four members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and “a number of Syrian forces”, reported Al Jazeera.

The targetted building was being used by Iranian advisers supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, reported Reuters.

The attack comes amid widening tensions in West Asia as Israel pushes ahead with its war on Gaza, which has been ongoing for 15 weeks. The Israeli military’s air and ground operations in the besieged Palestinian territory have killed over 23,000 people so far. The war was triggered after Palestinian militant group Hamas led an incursion into southern Israel. The group killed 1,200 people and took over 200 hostages.