Iran vows revenge after officer killed by Israel, Netanyahu says ‘war far from over’: Top points

As the Israel-Hamas war continues to rage, an Israeli airstrike has killed a high-ranking Iranian general in the Damascus neighborhood in Syria. Iranian officials and allied terrorist groups in the region vowed revenge for the killing but did not immediately launch any retaliatory strike. Clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border between Hezbollah and Israel, too, have continued to intensify, with daily exchanges of missiles, airstrikes and shelling across the frontier.

The war has devastated parts of Gaza, killed roughly 20,400 Palestinians and displaced almost all of the territory’s 2.3 million people. The mounting death toll among Israeli troops — 156 since the ground offensive began — could erode public support for the war, which was sparked when Hamas-led terrorists stormed communities in southern Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 and taking 240 hostages.

An Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday killed a senior officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. According to the semi-official Iranian Tasnim news agency, Brig. General Razi Mousavi was killed in a strike in the Damascus suburb of Sayeda Zeinab. Mousavi was responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Iran and Syria, and was believed by Israel to be heavily involved in Tehran’s efforts to supply weapons to terror proxies in the area, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group.