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Israel Has Stepped Up Attacks on Iranian, Hezbollah Targets in Syria


Yoni Ben Menachem
JNS, Apr. 4, 2023

“Israel’s security establishment estimates that Iran is seeking ways to respond to Heydari’s death, and sooner rather than later.”
 
On April 2, 2023, Israel reportedly attacked several targets in Syria’s Homs province associated with the Syrian army and Iran-backed militias. Syrian state media reported that five military personnel were injured in the attack.

A Syrian opposition organization stated that one of the targets attacked was a military base housing Hezbollah operatives.

It was the third attack in four days attributed to Israel, and the ninth on Hezbollah and Iranian targets in Syria since the beginning of the year.

At the end of last week, Israeli missiles hit Syrian army and the Iranian militia bases west of Damascus. According to sources in the Syrian opposition, five Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in the attack.

In an unusual announcement, the Iranians stated officially that Milad Heydari, a military adviser to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in the strike, which Tehran attributed to Israel. Also unusually, his photo was also published by Iranian media.

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