Early on January 12, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out an airstrike on Syria. According to reports, Israeli warplanes, coming from the direction of Galilee, fired several missiles at a depot in the Damascus International Airport. The Syrian Air Defense Forces reportedly intercepted at least 8 of them.
Following the airstrike, Israeli warplanes were seen flying at high speed and low altitude over the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
On January 13, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the IAF had targeted several “Iranian depots full of Iranian weapons in the Damascus International Airport”.
This incident was the second Israeli attack on Syria within a few weeks. On December 25, Israeli warplanes targeted several military positions around the Syrian capital. While Israeli sources claimed that the positions were being used by Iranian forces only, the airstrikes injured several Syrian service members.
During the weekend, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) held a military exercise involving battle tanks in the Hatay province bordering the Syrian province of Idlib. TAF units were deployed in Hatay’s Yayladagi region.
Meanwhile, Jaysh al-Ahrar, a part of the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL) coalition, has handed over Taftanaz airbase in the eastern Idlib countryside to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda).
According to the available information, this step was a part of a surrender agreement which the NFL accepted few days ago. The Turkish-backed group will also have to hand over all of its heavy weapons in Idlib to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham soon.
The Taftanaz airbase was one of the key NFL strong points in this part of the Idlib de-escalation zone. The surrender of this point to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham just another indication that the terrorist group is the main “armed opposition force” in this part of Syria.
At the late hours of January 12, a unit of the Syrian Military Intelligence carried out a security operation in the town of Ayn Firkha in the southern governorate of al-Quneitra. Two suspects, Khalid Diab and Ali Diab, were arrested during the operation. Some Syrian opposition activists claimed that Syrian agents killed a civilian also. However, the pro-opposition Orient TV said that the agents shoot and injured a third suspect.
Such operations are usually carried out against members of terrorist groups, like ISIS and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), or against local operatives of the Israeli intelligence. Prior to its liberation in 2018, Ayn Firkha and many other towns in southern Syria were full of members of terrorist groups and Israeli spies, according to pro-government sources.
Last month, the Syrian intelligence neutralized prominent al-Qaeda commander Ayad al-Tubasi while he was plotting to re-launch an insurgency in southern Syria. In different periods, the infamous terrorist was member of Jabhat al-Nusra and Horas al-Din.
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Israel is just bombing shit for domestic consumption at this point. The israeli population is completely brainwashed, even more so than Americans. They don’t question anything they are told. That warehouse could have been filled with nothing more than regular AK-47 ammunition for all we know. Netanyahu has to look tough, that’s all this is. Little does he know that his fat ego will be his downfall.
…….and the warehouse could have been full of cigarettes , or hot air
“Following the airstrike, Israeli warplanes were seen flying at high speed and low altitude over the southern Lebanese city of Tyre”.
Which is why there really ought to be S-300s in Tyre… and Beirut.
I don’t see what Israel’s logic is in saying they attack Iranian soldiers and weapons in Syria. Anything and anyone legally in Syria is under the protection of the Syrian government.
How would it be viewed if Syria were to launch strikes on Israel, and protest that it was only taking out “the American weapons” sneaked into Israel? (Of course that might be awkward, as almost all of Israel’s weapons are American).
TW
“I don’t see what Israel’s logic is in saying they attack Iranian soldiers and weapons in Syria.”
Well they can’t very well say they are attacking Syria as part of their greater israel land grab. Nor can they claim they are attacking Iran because it is independent of zionazi-gay control and a hindrance to their control. The goyim might get “bad thoughts”, hearing such things, they just might look a bit more critically at their governments’ collusion with, and facilitation of zionazi-gay power. Gotta keep those impressionable goys under firm control, you know. :-D
So they lie. Claiming Syria is setting itself up to be a staging ground for a Hizbulla/Iranian invasion of sacred apartheid israel kills a lot of psywar birds with one stone.
Syrian Minister Reveals Damage Done in Israeli Airstrike on Damascus
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201901141071465016-damascus-airport-planes-damaged/
“Syrian Minister of Transport Ali Hamud said on 14 January that the latest airstrike by Israeli jets in the Arab Republic damaged not only service buildings at Damascus International Airport, but also several planes, rendering them useless.
“The shrapnel damaged wings of several jets. As you know, fuel tanks are situated in the wings. Due to this, the use of several planes has been stopped”, he said.
Ali Hamud also noted that the remaining fleet of air planes is ageing and currently in dire need of spare parts.
The minister said that apart from planes, several buildings at the airport were also damaged in the airstrike. He added that an aircraft repair hangar was among them. It had already been damaged in an earlier Israeli strike and hadn’t been repaired by the time of the last one.
Israeli jets conducted an air raid on the night of 11-12 January, hitting targets in the suburbs of Damascus. Syrian air defences downed most of the missiles. Damascus condemned the strike and urged the UN to take steps to prevent further Israeli air raids.”
Netanyahoo and Trump are the same in that whenever they say something, I yawn.
Actually, if either said something, I probably wouldn’t have any idea that they said something, except the internet will tell me all about it.
It’s no use at all paying any attention to serial liars. It simply isn’t worth any effort. Whatever sounds come out of their mouths are completely meaningless.
Well, let us see?
Niten said what? well, ok, move along, nothing to believe here!
I saw it explained in another commentary about how Netanyahu has been outplayed at every juncture by Russia and Iran.. They and Assad take heat for not responding more aggressively to Israeli bombings and provocations but the facts are that each of these criminal mistakes by Israel has allowed Putin to up-grade Syrian and Russian systems and capabilities in the country in full view and face no legitimate criticisms for doing so.. Russia had agreed to void the S300 systems deal and others with Syria.. lawless Israeli actions gave Putin the political cover to go ahead with it and more. Yes some people have been killed and buildings lost but each attack by Netanyahu is only a demonstration of their increasing ineffectiveness. Plus in full view Israel commits one international crime after another. It’s more a house of cards Netanyahu has created than any Iron Dome.
Thanks.
Netanyahu lies as much as the Clintons do. Why should his statement the arms were destroyed by believed much less published?
Please see latest niten yaaaahooo statement: get out fast.”
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