BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike Monday in a Damascus neighborhood killed a high-ranking Iranian normal, Iranian state media stated.

The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a long-time adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Syria, comes as clashes alongside the Lebanon-Israel border between Hezbollah and Israel proceed to accentuate with fears of the Israel-Hamas struggle sparking a regional spillover with Iran-backed teams. The Israeli strikes killed two different generals earlier this month in Syria.

Israel struck the Sayida Zeinab neighborhood, situated close to a Shiite Muslim shrine, Iran’s official information company IRNA and Britain-based opposition struggle monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated. IRNA described Mousavi as a detailed companion of Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the top of Iran’s elite Quds Force who was slain in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.

Neither the Israeli navy nor Syrian state media instantly issued an announcement concerning the assault.

Though IRNA did not present different particulars concerning the assault, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated the Israeli navy focused Mousavi after he entered a farm within the space, which allegedly was one in all a number of places of work for Hezbollah. The Lebanese militant group, alongside Iran and Russia, has performed a key navy position in conserving President Bashar Assad’s authorities in energy all through the Syrian battle.

Israel has carried out tons of of strikes on targets inside government-controlled components of war-torn Syria lately.

It does not often acknowledge its airstrikes on Syria. But when it does, it says it is concentrating on Iranian-backed teams there which have backed Assad’s authorities.