Israel tried to kill Assad army commander: Iranian report

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Israel tried to kill Syrian army commander: Iranian report

By i24news
Published: 07/29/2016 - 10:20pm, updated: 10:25pm
credits/photos : Menahem Kahana (AFP)





News agency claims Israel fired missiles across border
Israel allegedly fired missiles at a senior Syrian military official but failed to kill him, the Iranian Fars news agency reported on Friday.
According to Fars, two missiles targeted the convoy of Majid Heymoud, commander of First Battalion of Golan Regiment but did not hurt him.
Jabhat al-Nusra militants then tried to kill Heymoud, Fars claimed.
Israel made no comment on the Fars report.
The report came after Israeli air force on Monday carried out a strike in southern Syria in response to a stray mortar that landed in the Israeli Golan Heights earlier in the day.
No injuries were reported on either side. The Syrian government said Israel had fired rockets from drones that damaged a residential building.
Earlier this month the IDF said that it attacked two Syrian army targets in retaliation for stray gunshots fired at the security fence on the northern border.
And on July 17, Israel fired two Patriot missiles at an unidentified drone that entered Israeli airspace from Syria. The missiles failed to intercept the unmanned aircraft and it returned to Syrian airspace.
Since the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, the Golan Heights have been tense, with a growing number of mostly stray rockets and mortar rounds hitting the Israeli side, prompting the occasional armed response.
In addition to retaliatory strikes, Israel acknowledged for the first time earlier this year that it has also carried out strikes against suspected arms transfers to Lebanon's Hezbollah militants.

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Report: Syrian commander escapes Israeli assassination attempt - Middle East - News -


Report: Syrian commander escapes Israeli assassination attempt

Iranian news agency claims a senior commander in the Syrian army escaped unharmed an Israeli assassination attempt in the Golan Heights.

Elad Benari, Canada, 29/07/16 20:20






A senior commander in the Syrian army recently escaped unharmed an Israeli assassination attempt in the Golan Heights, the Iranian semiofficial Fars news agency reported Friday.
According to the report, the man in question is Majid Heymoud, who was visiting the town of Eastern al-Samdaniya.
Heymoud's convoy, according to the report, came under two missile attacks in the part of the Golan Heights which is under Israel's control, but he escaped unharmed.
The report did not specify when this incident took place. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit told Kol Yisrael radio on Friday that it does not respond to reports in foreign outlets.
According to the Fars report, the Al-Nusra Front Syrian rebel group also tried to kill Heymoud after the alleged failed Israeli missile attack, but they did not succeed to do so.
Airstrikes attributed to Israel in recent years have targeted Hezbollah positions in Syria, as part of efforts to prevent the terrorist group from obtaining advanced weaponry from Iran in exchange for its support of the Assad regime.
The Israeli government mostly adopts a policy of ambiguity on these attacks, though Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently confirmed for the first time that Israel occasionally conducts military activities in Syria to prevent threats on its borders.
(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

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This reported Israeli airstrike occurred on Thursday this week. Iranian Fars did not report the timing. It is my conclusion that the strike was successful and that Assad and Iran are just denying it. Recall that when an Israeli airstrike killed Hezbollah militant leader Kuntar right in Damascus in December 2015, Iran first denied it until Israel basically took credit for it.

A few months back when Israeli airstrikes killed Badreedine, Hezbollah outright denied that Israel was responsible and instead blamed it on the Syrian opposition which was a convenient way to not be pushed in a corner to respond.