Within three days, Israel carried out strikes inside Syria, and as usual, it did not claim or acknowledge carrying them out, but the losses of the strikes turned out to have targeted Iranian Revolutionary Guard positions.
The targeted sites were in the vicinity of Damascus and Homs governorate, where shelling targeted Damascus twice in a row, on Thursday and Friday; and on Saturday evening targeted the city of Homs. T-Four air base, west of Palmyra, was targeted. In addition to the Dabaa military airport, northeast of the city of Qusayr, which is controlled by the Lebanese Hezbollah.
After Friday's raids, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that one of its advisers had been killed in the Israeli raid around the capital, Milad Heidari, the first time the IRGC had announced his deaths.
For its part, Reuters reported the killing of the second officer in the Revolutionary Guards, named Mahdad Macdani, while the Syrian news agency SANA talked about the Israeli raids, but did not mention the killing of Iranian advisers. She said: "Our air defense means confronted the missiles of the aggression, and shot down some of them; the aggression led to the injury of 5 military personnel, and some material losses."
The program "Shabakat" (2023/4/2) followed the tweets of social media users on the news of repeated Israeli raids, as W. account was surprised by the recurrence of raids without a response and wrote: "In something of it (there is something not) normal, Israeli raids every two days on Syria, and no one can respond, if the axis (axis of resistance) is strong and heck (and so on) how if it is weak?!".
Activist Rawan expressed the lack of response to the strikes: "Every day Israel targets sites in Syria, bombing with comfort and reassurance that the response will not come. And come out to you for some to say we will respond at the right time!! The trifles and lies of the regime are not believed by a madman, so how can a sane person believe them?!"
Activist Boughanim questioned the role of the Arab countries, saying: "Now the Arab countries are pulling their tricks (which are accelerating the pace) to return Syria to the Arab fold. They can prevent Israel from targeting Syrian sites. ؟؟".
In turn, activist Hassan al-Hamdan wrote: "If the Syrian response is not harsh in Tel Aviv, Israel will not stop its aggression against Syria. O Lord, protect Assad's Syria and its people."