On December 2, Iran's most elite armed force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, announced for the first time that two officers had been killed by Israel during a "consultant mission" in Syria, Greece's Pentapostagma**.
Ali Atay Surse and Pana Tajizadeh, prominent members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, were killed by Israel while carrying out a mission in Syria.
This is the first time that the Iranian side has announced the personnel situation caused by the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
However, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced that at around 1:35 a.m. on Saturday, Israel launched airstrikes from the direction of the Golan Heights on targets near the Syrian capital, Damascus. Syrian officials claimed that two people were killed and seven others were injured in Israeli airstrikes.
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has frequently launched airstrikes against targets in Syria, primarily targeting the Syrian army and other pro-Iranian militias, including the activities of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria. In particular, since the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, there has been a marked increase in the intensity of Israeli attacks on Syrian territory.
For example, between 2.32 a.m. and 2.44 a.m. on 22 November, Israel fired multiple rocket launchers from the Golan Heights and attacked Syrian infrastructure in Damascus governorate. According to Rear Admiral Vadim Kulidy, deputy head of the Russian Conflict Mediation Center in Syria, four people were injured as a result of the attack.
Iran has close ties with Hamas, and Iran provides a lot of military aid to Hamas, so Israel believes that Iran is behind the scenes supporting Hamas's attacks on Israel. Iran, for its part, has repeatedly condemned Israel's strikes on Gaza. Iran**Ibrahim Raisi has publicly accused Israel of constant attacks on hospitals, religious facilities and the killing of women, children, doctors, journalists and journalists, calling it an act of terrorism.
The death of the Iranian officer may be linked to the hostility between the two countries. But Iran's threat to Israel has not abated. Recently, Iran announced the launch of a new hypersonic missile, the Fattah-2, and threatened to "strike any Israeli target within 400 seconds" and even threatened to turn Tel Aviv into a desert landscape on the moon.
The incident once again highlighted the tensions in the Middle East, as well as the confrontation between Iran and Israel. The hostility and contradictions between the two countries have made the situation in the region more unstable, and there are fears about whether such tensions will escalate further.