“The people killed were members of the Quds Force. They are people involved in terrorism against the State of Israel,” the Israeli army spokesman explained in the first official comment from the IDF.
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The Israeli Army spokesman affirmed this Monday that the victims of the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus were terrorists deployed against Israel, in the first official comment from Tel Aviv forces on the attack that occurred two weeks ago.
“The people killed in Damascus were members of the Quds Force. [braço de operações especiais estrangeiras da Guarda Revolucionária]. These are people involved in terrorism against the State of Israel,” Daniel Hagari said at a press conference.
Iran launched an attack against Israel on Saturday night and early Sunday, using more than 300 drones, cruise and ballistic missiles, the vast majority of which were intercepted, according to the Israeli military.
Tehran justified the attack as a self-defense measure, arguing that the military action was a response to “the aggression of the Zionist regime” against the Iranian diplomatic facilities in Damascus, which occurred on April 1, in which seven members of the Revolutionary Guard They died, including two generals, and six Syrian citizens, whose responsibility Tel Aviv never acknowledged.
The Western international community strongly condemned Iran’s attack on Israel and called for maximum restraint to avoid an escalation of violence in the Middle East, a region already very unstable due to the war that has been going on for more than six months between Tel forces. Aviv. and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Observadora
