An unusual and especially brazen air attack last night in Syria is making headlines in the Arab world. Syrian television reported an airstrike attributed to Israel in which the Damascus airport area and the headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Kfar Susa were attacked.
According to the reports, an Iranian who was a senior member of the Revolutionary Guards was killed in the attack, as well as another Revolutionary Guards operative with foreign citizenship. The two hid among civilians in the basement of a school near the Iranian embassy. According to the official Syrian TV channel report, three major sites were attacked tonight in Syria. The first site is a radar at Tel al-Masih located in the south of the country, south of the city of Shahba. In addition, positions of the Syrian army near the city of Al-Kiswa, south of Damascus, were attacked. Also, a building in the village of Susa where forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are apparently stationed was attacked.
Five killed in Israeli strike on Damascus, Syria says https://t.co/t833zCVd7t
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 19, 2023
In Syria, they reported 13 dead and 7 wounded in the attack, most of them from the same building that probably belongs to the Revolutionary Guards. Syrian sources stated that the Israeli attack tonight was the most powerful of all previous attacks on the Damascus airport area in the last two years. Many ambulances arrived at the scene to evacuate the injured and dead. The Syrian Red Crescent rescued bodies from the building that was attacked, and fire engines worked to put out a fire that broke out following the attack on the building.
The first reports came from the Syrian news agency, "SANA", where they reported that the air defense systems were operating against "Israeli aggression in the area". According to reports in Iran and Syria, at least 5 people were killed in the attack, while according to the Syrian Ministry of Health, 3 people were killed. However, it turns out that the three were killed by the anti-aircraft missiles fired by the Syrians, while two others were killed by the attack itself in a completely different area.
— Majd Fahd 🇸🇾 (@Syria_Protector) February 18, 2023
Under the auspices of the Iranians' "humanitarian" aid to the earthquake-stricken country, the Iranians transferred weapons to Syria that were destined to be transferred to Hezbollah. On the way to Lebanon, the weapons were stored in a warehouse, the same one that was attacked tonight by what foreign news outlets are attributing to the Israeli Air Force. According to the reports, the attacking planes came from the direction of the Golan Heights, yet Israel has not and likely will not confirm or deny the Saturday night raid in Syria.
