Israeli airstrike kills deputy commander of IRGC-QF in Damascus
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Israel killed on Tuesday the deputy commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in an airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus.
Two sources told North Press that Mohammad Reza Fallahzadeh was killed in the Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building in the Mezzeh neighborhood.
Syria’s state-run news agency SANA said that the airstrike resulted in the killing of seven people and injuries to 11 others, including children and women, and caused significant damage to several nearby buildings and vehicles.
The Iranian embassy in Damascus denied that any Iranian nationals were killed in the attack, but the sources stressed that Fallahzadeh, the deputy commander of the IRGC-QF, was indeed killed near the embassy in the Israeli strike.
Born in 1962, Fallahzadeh had been serving as deputy commander of the Quds Force since April 19, 2021, succeeding Mohammad Hossein-Zadeh Hejazi.