Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad (C) visits the site of strikes which hit a building annexed to the Iranian embassy in Syria s capital Damascus, on April 1, 2024. AFP
The raid destroyed the consular annex of the embassy, with Iran's Revolutionary Guard saying two of its high-level commanders were among seven of its personnel killed.
"The death toll from Israeli strikes on the Iranian embassy annex has risen to 16," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the British-based Observatory, which had previously given a toll of 14.
He said the dead included eight Iranians, five Syrians, and one member of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group -- all of them fighters.
Two civilians, a woman and her son, were also killed, the Observatory added.
The Observatory said one of the dead, named as Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, had served as leader of the Revolutionary Guard Corps' overseas Quds Force for Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon.
The Damascus strike was the fifth in a week to hit Syria.
The Damascus raid came after another Israeli raid last Friday killed 53 people in Syria, including 38 soldiers and seven Hezbollah members, according to the Observatory.
It was the highest Syrian army toll in Israeli strikes since the Israeli war on Gaza began on October 7, according to the monitor.
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