New Israeli attack | Accurate assassination targets commander in Iraqi Hezbollah near Sayeda Zeinab area
Damascus province: A commander in the Iraqi Hezbollah was killed and his escort was injured in an attack carried out by a drone believed to be Israeli, targeting his car on the road to Damascus international airport.
The car was seen catching fire on 05:00 am, while ambulances hurried to the site of the car which is located a few kilometres away from Sayeda Zeinab area.
The targeted commander had military headquarters and a rest house in the region.
SOHR sources have also confirmed that they did not hear loud explosions in that region today, such as those caused by raids by Israeli fighter jets; this proves that the attack was carried out with an accurate missile.
It is worth noting that the area, where the commander was attacked, hosts several military headquarters belonging to the Iraqi, Lebanese and Syrian Hezbollah and Iranian-backed militias which dominate several farms in the region, where members and commanders of those formation move comfortably away from regime security services.
SOHR documented 67 attacks in 2024: 50 airstrikes and 17 rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 142 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles. These strikes killed 211 combatants and injured 144 others. The fatalities are distributed as follows:
- 24 Iranian members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
- 43 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
- 19 Iraqi persons.
- 59 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
- 17 Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen.
- 46 regime soldiers.
- Three unidentified persons.
In addition, those attacks left 23 civilians, including a little girl and three women, dead and nearly 36 other civilians injured.
It is worth noting that one of those attacks killed Baraa Al-Qaterji, a prominent businessman close to Iranians, and his cousin.
The attacks are distributed regionally as follows:
- Damascus and Rif Dimashq: 25 attacks.
- Daraa: 16 attacks.
- Homs: Ten attacks.
- Al-Quneitra: Eight attacks.
- Tartus: Three attack.
- Deir Ezzor: One attack.
- Aleppo: Two attacks.
- Hama: Four attacks.
SOHR would like to point out that Israel sometimes targeted more than one province in a single attack.