A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who served as a military adviser in Syria, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital Damascus on the 25th.
Syed Razi Mousavi Source: Reuters
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement on the 25th, saying that Syed Razi Mousavi died in an Israeli missile attack that day. He is one of Iran's oldest and most experienced advisers to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria and a comrade-in-arms of the late senior Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani was a former commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force and died on January 3, 2020, in an airstrike campaign ordered by then-US President Donald Trump.
Iranian President Raisi
According to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency, the Israeli army attacked Saidada Zainab in the suburbs of Damascus on the 25th, and Mousavi died in the attack. Iranian President Raisi issued a statement on the same day, saying that Israel's malicious actions once again show its "despair, weakness and helplessness" in the region, and that Israel "will definitely pay the price for its crimes."
According to the Syrian media "Sham FM", Israel bombed Saidada Zainab in the southern suburbs of Damascus on the same day, causing casualties and damage to facilities. In an interview with Xinhua news agency, Syrian sources said two Iranians were killed in the attack.
Allah, a Lebanese Shiite militant group, said on its television station that Mousavi's death was a "new crime" by "Zionist enemies" and that "the assassination was a flagrant and outrageous attack and a violation of the border."
Mousavi is one of the oldest Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders in Syria and Lebanon and has been working in the region since the 80s, according to Al Jazeera.
Mousavi and Soleimani
"According to our sources, Israel has previously attempted to assassinate Mousavi several times. "The Israelis have long viewed Mousavi as an important figure in the arms smuggling network from Iran to Syria, from Iraq to Syria and finally to Allah in Lebanon, and is also very influential in the 'Resistance Front'." ”
The Axis of Resistance, also known as the Arc of Resistance, includes Iranian, Syrian, and Lebanese Allah, as well as any anti-Western or anti-Israel militias in the region, with the common goal of countering U.S. and Israeli influence in the Middle East.
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Israeli army has continued to carry out air strikes on targets in Syria on the grounds of striking Iranian military installations and preventing Iran from sending weapons to Allah in Syria and Lebanon.
Israeli Army spokesman Rear Admiral Hagary was asked on Monday (25th) whether Israel had anything to do with Mousavi's death, and he declined to comment, but he stressed that "the responsibility of the Israeli army is to safeguard Israel's security interests."
At the same time, Netanyahu declared that Israel would "step up" its strikes in the coming days and stressed that Israel would stick to the course of the war even as the death toll continued to climb. "We're not going to stop," he said. The war will continue until the end, until they are all annihilated. Netanyahu made the above remarks during a visit to Israeli forces fighting in the Gaza Strip on Monday (25th).
Hours before Netanyahu's visit to the Gaza Strip, officials at the Gaza Strip Health Ministry reported a devastating airstrike at night on a densely populated local community.
According to the report, a funeral was held in the Gaza Strip on Monday (25th), and Palestinian health officials said that the dead died in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip, and at least 70 people were killed in the airstrike. Zidra, a spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health, said many of the victims in Magazi were women and children. In addition, 23 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, meaning more than 100 people died in the Gaza Strip overnight. Several media outlets reported that it was the worst night in Gaza.
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