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An advisor working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had died from injuries sustained in an Israeli strike that targeted a highly-secured neighborhood in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on October 1, Iran’s Student News Network reported on October 3.
The news network identified the slain guard’s advisor as Majid Divani, without providing any further details about his rank or work.
An Israeli strike targeted on October 1 the Mazzeh Western Villas neighborhood in Damascus, where several Syrian security and military headquarters as well as embassies and United Nations agencies are located.
Citing a Syrian military official, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported at the time that Syrian air defenses intercepted a number of Israeli missiles and drones which were launched from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights.
The strike killed three civilians and wounded at least nine others, according to the unnamed official. One of the victims was a Syrian state TV news female anchor.
Israel has significantly escalated its attacks on Syria since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of the IRGC, Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
On October 2, Hassan Jafar Qassir, the son-in-law of late Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, was reportedly killed in an Israeli strike that hit the Mazzeh Western Villas neighborhood.
The death of Divani will not likely provoke a response from Iran, which launched a large-scale missile attack against Israel after he was wounded in Damascus.
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