Israel launches deadly strike on Iranian officers training Hezbollah terrorists in Syria just ten miles from Damascus

 Israel launches deadly strike on Iranian officers training Hezbollah terrorists in Syria just ten miles from Damascus

• Israel targeted commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) 

• Israeli warplanes launched a devastating dawn raid inside Syria yesterday, killing two senior officers of Iran's Revolutionary Guards who were in the country training terrorists. 

  

  In an escalation in its war on terror Israel targeted the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in an air strike just ten miles from Damascus, the Syrian capital.

  The base was being used by the Tehran-backed terrorism group Hezbollah, which is closely allied with Hamas in Gaza.

• The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: 'The two IRGC officers were the target of the Israelis. They struck immediately after the pair went into the Hezbollah site.'

• The attack came as intense fighting resumed for a second day in Gaza following the collapse of Israel's ceasefire with Hamas, during which 105 hostages were released by the terror group.

  Hopes for a renewed truce broke down last night after Israel ordered its negotiating team to withdraw from talks being held with mediators in Qatar, claiming Hamas was still holding women and children it had promised to release.

  Around 160 people are still being held by Hamas following its invasion of southern Israel on October 7, killing more than 1,200 people.

  Relatives of the hostages still being held in Gaza spoke of their turmoil after hostilities resumed. Jimmy Miller's cousin Sheri Bibas, 32, is being held with her husband Yarden, 34, and children Kifir, ten months, and Ariel, four.

  Hamas claims the mother and children were killed in an Israeli air strike last month. But Mr Miller told The Mail on Sunday: 'We still believe the family is OK and they are alive. We try to be optimistic. 'A ceasefire would be good, but the terrorists are playing with us. I don't trust them.'

  Gil Dickman, 31, whose cousin, Carmel Gat, 39, is being held, said: 'Seeing the hostages come home has given us hope, but now fighting has resumed we are worried.'

  After talks set up to secure a new ceasefire broke down yesterday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said: 'Hamas did not fulfil its obligations under the agreement that included releasing all the women and children that were on the list.'

  French PM Emmanuel Macron has offered to negotiate a ceasefire, and US Vice President Kamala Harris has urged Israel to show restraint, adding: 'Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed.'

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