Israel said its overnight targeting of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria "shows Tehran that its forces are vulnerable to targeting anywhere, while officials of the Revolutionary Guards and the Syrian regime have played down the impact of the Israeli attack."
The Israeli army said in a statement that its planes "targeted the Quds Force and Shiite militias that were planning attacks against positions in Israel from inside Syria in recent days."
His spokesman Jonathan Conricus said that "the Jerusalem Corps was preparing Thursday to launch a number of attack drones simultaneously on northern Israel, and each of them would have been loaded with explosives weighing several kilograms, but Israel aborted this plan."
The Israeli spokesman did not disclose the actions taken by Tel Aviv that day, but described the attack drones as very accurate. He explained that the drones arrived in Damascus airport weeks ago with "Iranian agents" and then transferred to a compound run by the Quds Force in a village southeast of the city.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the army had foiled a planned Iranian offensive. "There is no immunity for Iran anywhere. Our forces are working everywhere against Iranian aggression, if they kill you, kill him first," he said on Twitter.
However, the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah acknowledged that the Israeli attack targeted a house where there are members of the party, and there are only Lebanese youth, where two people were killed, and vowed to retaliate and avenge the dead.
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A senior Revolutionary Guards commander denied on Sunday that Iranian targets were hit in Israeli air strikes in Syria late on Saturday, the semi-official IRNA news agency reported.
For its part, the Syrian regime has played down the impact of the Israeli raid, an attack that has been repeated from time to time against what Israel says are Iranian targets in Syria.
SANA news agency quoted a Syrian military source as saying that "at 11:30, our air defense media spotted hostile targets coming from above the Golan towards the perimeter of Damascus. .
Tel Aviv says it has launched hundreds of attacks in Syria against Iranian targets trying to establish a permanent military presence there and against sophisticated arms shipments to Hizbollah.