A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted Sayyidah Zaynab, a stronghold of Iranian militias, near Damascus early on Friday morning, according to Iranian reports.
The Iranian Entekhab news site identified the killed IRGC member as Saeed Alidadi. The strikes targeted the Sayyidah Zaynab area, an area which has been targeted several times by alleged Israeli airstrikes in recent months, according to the Syrian Capital Voice news site.
Sites near Aqraba, south of Damascus, were targeted as well, according to Nour Abo Hassan, a journalist in southern Syria.
The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the airstrikes were carried out from over the Golan Heights and that the airstrikes only caused material damage without any casualties.
Reported airstrikes come just days after previous strike
The strikes are the latest attributed to Israel in Syria as tensions continue to rise across the region. The last strike on the Sayyidah Zaynab area was reported just a few days ago, with four members of the IRGC reported killed in that strike.
On Thursday, Reuters reported that the IRGC scaled back deployment of their senior officers in Syria due to a spate of deadly Israeli strikes, adding that the IRGC will rely more on allied Shi’ite militia to preserve their sway there.
Since December, Israeli strikes have killed more than half a dozen of their members, among them one of the Guards’ top intelligence generals. Several of the strikes in which IRGC members were killed targeted the Sayyidah Zaynab area, according to Syrian reports.
On Tuesday night, the Israeli Air Force struck military infrastructure belonging to the Syrian Army in the Daraa Governorate of southern Syria after several rockets were fired towards the Golan Heights.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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