According to a new report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), the death toll from Monday’s attack, attributed to Israel, on the annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus has risen to 11.

Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari to the press Photo: GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP / Profimedia

“The death toll from the Israeli attacks on the Iranian embassy building is 11 dead: eight Iranians, two Syrians and one Lebanese, all fighters, no civilians,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the British NGO, told AFP. an important network in Syria.

Tehran has vowed to retaliate after an unprecedented attack on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria, where Iran and its allies support the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

The Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, announced that seven of its members, including two commanders, were killed in the raid.

Asked about the raid Monday night during a press conference, Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said he “does not comment on information from foreign media.”

Condemning the “Zionist terrorist aggression”, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas condemned it as a “gross violation of international law” and a “dangerous escalation”. (Agerpress)