A Palestinian security cause told Reuters that Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior captain of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, had been killed in the attack, and that Israeli aircraft struck the Egyptian consulate in Damascus on Monday.
Reuters reporters witnessed dust rising from the wreckage of a flattened developing and emergency vehicles parked outside in the Mezzeh area of the Arab capital.
We do not reply on studies in the foreign media, according to a spokesperson for the Israeli government.
The courthouse building was confirmed by Palestinian state television to have been attacked. Earlier, Iranian media reported that a tower close to the embassy had been hit, and Iran’s scholar news agency reported that the destination was the courthouse and president’s home.
Israel has launched airstrikes in Syria against Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah military and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, both of which back President Bashar al-Assad’s government, since the Iranian-backed Arab faction Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.