In a statement on its website, Sepah News, the Guard announced the killing of Colonel Ehsan Karbalai Pour and Colonel Morteza Saeed Nejad.
And the Revolutionary Guards warned that “the Zionist entity will pay the price for this crime.”
The Syrian official news agency, “SANA,” said Monday that the Israeli bombing had killed “two civilians.”
For its part, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the bombing targeted “at least a warehouse of weapons and ammunition belonging to Iranian fighters” in the vicinity of Damascus International Airport, and led to the death of “two fighters loyal to Iran.”
This is not the first time that Iran has announced the fall of members of its military forces in Israeli strikes in Syria. In 2018, Tehran accused Tel Aviv of causing the killing of four “military advisers” with strikes in Homs province.
Over the past years, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, targeting Syrian army sites, Iranian targets, and Lebanese Hezbollah targets, which are close to Tehran.
Since the beginning of this year, Israel has carried out seven air strikes in Syria, including strikes that on February 24, according to the observatory, killed two soldiers and four fighters loyal to Iran in the vicinity of Damascus, while SANA reported that three soldiers were killed.
Israel rarely confirms that it has carried out strikes in Syria, but it reiterates that it will continue to confront what it describes as Iran’s attempts to establish its military presence in Syria.