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IRGC advisor, 2 Hezbollah members assassinated in Israeli aggression on Syria

Friday, 01 March 2024 2:55 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 01 March 2024 2:55 PM ]

The file photo shows IRGC military advisor, Reza Zarei, who was killed in an Israeli attack in Syria on March 1, 2024.

A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy serving as a military advisor has been killed in an Israeli strike on Syria.

In a statement on Friday, the IRGC Navy said its member -- Reza Zarei -- was assassinated along with two members of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement on Friday.

They were killed in an Israeli attack on Syria's northwestern Baniyas port earlier in the day, it added.

Reza Zarei, an Iranian military advisor in Syria, has been martyred in the Israeli regime's air strikes in the Arab country's Baniyas pic.twitter.com/fAmWgzP42h
— Press TV 🔻 (@PressTV) March 1, 2024

Israel frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of resistance fighters, who have played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.

Iran maintains an advisory mission in Syria at the request of Damascus to help the war-torn Arab country defeat the foreign-backed militants who have been fighting the democratically-elected Syrian government since 2011.

Back in January, five IRGC military advisors along with several Syrian forces were assassinated in an Israeli strike in the Syrian capital, Damascus.