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Iranian media studies mentioned IRGC member Reza Zarei was killed in a suspected Israeli strike within the port metropolis of Baniyas.
Iran's state information company IRNA reported {that a} member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two different folks have been killed within the suspected Israeli strike.
IRNA mentioned Reza Zarei, an IRGC member, was “killed by the Zionist regime at daybreak in the present day” within the port metropolis of Baniyas.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights warfare monitor confirmed Friday's assault.
It mentioned three explosions hit a villa within the middle of Baniyas on Syria's Mediterranean coast in the course of the daybreak assault on a villa that sheltered “a bunch affiliated with Iran.”
The Britain-based Observatory, which depends on a community of sources inside Syria, mentioned a constructing was destroyed, killing an Iranian and two different non-Syrians who have been with him.
There are various studies that a number of different folks have been additionally injured within the assault.
There was no remark from Israel after the assault, however its air drive has bombed a number of targets in Syria.
On Thursday, Israel killed a Hezbollah member in an assault on Syria close to the Lebanese border, hours after comparable assaults, the Observatory mentioned.
“One other focused killing in Syria, one other member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria,” mentioned Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.
“Iranian media is blaming Israel. Israel doesn’t often touch upon particular person assaults however has acknowledged finishing up lots of of strikes in opposition to Iranian targets and Iran-linked targets lately.
“However in current weeks, what we’ve seen is sustained assaults, comparable assaults. For instance, in December one of many high commanders of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria was assassinated in Damascus.
Based on Khodr, Israel has been finishing up the raids for years as a result of it doesn’t need Iran to achieve a foothold in Syria militarily. However because the begin of Israel's warfare on Gaza on October 7, its technique has modified.
“It’s now going after high-value targets,” our correspondent mentioned.
“The person killed in Baniyas, Reza Zarei, was answerable for Iranian oil shipments to Syria. “Based on analysts, Israel is focusing on these high-value targets to chop the connection between the command in Tehran and native actors linked to Iran in Syria,” she mentioned.
Reuters information company reported in February that Iran's Revolutionary Guard had lowered the deployment of its senior officers to Syria within the face of lethal Israeli assaults and was relying extra on allied militias to keep up its dominance there.