Israel air force strikes near Damascus airport: Syrian reports

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Israel air force strikes near Damascus airport: Syrian reports

By i24news
Published: 11/11/2015 - 10:39pm, updated: 10:47pm





Unconfirmed reports suggest target of attacks was a weapons shipments likely intended for Hezbollah
According to various media outlets linked to Syrian opposition groups, Israel's air force carried out attacks near Damascus airport early Wednesday morning.
The source of the reports was unknown and they were not confirmed by any official bodies in Syria or Israel.
The opposition groups claimed that the target of the strikes was a weapons shipments likely intended for Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
Loud explosions were heard and rising pillars of smoke seen at the airport, according to the reports.
No major Arab-language media outlets reported the alleged strikes.
Since the beginning of the bloody civil war in 2011, Israel is reported to have attacked Syrian military bases on a number of occasions, including raids reportedly targeting Iranian rockets bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Two weeks ago, Israeli Air Force jets allegedly hit targets in Syria linked to Hezbollah, according to Lebanese and Syrian media reports.
According to the Lebanese Debate website, six IAF warplanes attacked targets in the Qalamun Mountain region of western Syria including a weapons convoy that was headed for Hezbollah.
However, this report contradicted Syrian media reports that said Israeli planes had hit several Hezbollah targets in southern Syria.
Back in April, it was reported that the Israeli Air Force struck targets, including Hezbollah's missile launchers, in the Qalamun Mountain region near the border between Syria and Lebanon. Lebanese media outlets said that over 30 people were killed and dozens injured in the strike.
Sources quoted by Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera said that several explosions were also reported in the Syrian towns of Al-Qutayfah, Yabroud and Qarah near Damascus in the April strike.

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Report: Israel Strikes Target in Syria ... Again

Media in both countries are reporting that Damascus Airport was hit by Israeli planes.


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• Adam Chandler
• 3:18 PM ET

Over the course of Syria’s four-and-a-half-year-old civil war, Israel has quietly been drawn in at times. It occasionally treats wounded Syrians in its hospitals and, according to reports, occasionally bombs weapon conveys or retaliates for cross-border fire.
On Wednesday night, Israel reportedly launched another strike against targets at or near the airport in the Syrian capital, Damascus, which is under the control of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“Opposition media outlets [in Syria] reported that explosions were heard at the airport, followed by a power outage and the temporary grounding of aircraft,” the Israeli paper Ynet reported, noting a Facebook page associated with the Assad regime also claimed an attack has taken place. Notably, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington, D.C., where he was having a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
As The Times of Israel notes, the Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on Wednesday’s report, which is in line with its policy. In the past, Israel has said it would act to ensure sophisticated weapons don’t reach Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite militant group that has been active in Syria. Less than two weeks ago, Israeli airstrikes were said to hit assets belonging to the Assad regime and Hezbollah, which Israel and the U.S. regard as a terrorist organization.
What is potentially different about recent Israeli attacks has to do with the new involvement of Russian forces, which are now engaging on the ground and in the air in Syria. In a meeting this fall, Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a deconfliction mechanism, which would work to make sure the two parties didn’t attack each other.
However, as Moscow further entrenches with the Assad regime and Iran, both of which are enemies of the Jewish state, it gets more difficult to imagine that future Israeli strikes will not prompt a response from one of the many parties involved in the Syrian conflict.

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