Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday, a marked escalation in a war pitting Israel against its regional adversaries, and Tehran said the strike killed seven military advisers including three senior commanders.

Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble of a destroyed building inside the diplomatic compound, adjacent to the main embassy building. Emergency vehicles were parked outside. An Iranian flag hung from a pole by the debris.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Its gonna be different when its not a people living in a concentration camp retaliating against Israel. This has the potential to escalate very quickly.

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      3 months ago

      Don’t you think the entire point of Hamas’ attack was to escalate the conflict?