Asked if Israel retaliated for the salvo, he said, “We have retaliated but I have no further details about this”.
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Syria’s state news agency SANA quoted a Syrian military official as saying Israeli missiles hit air defence positions, radar stations and a weapons warehouse, but claiming most incoming rockets were intercepted. The Israeli military would not immediately comment on its specific targets.
It said some Israeli missiles had been brought down south of the city of Homs. There were no reports of casualties.
A Syrian military source, state media and a monitoring group said Israeli missiles were earlier targeting regime sites in the Queintra region on the Syrian side of the border. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated the missiles focused depots and rocket launchers that possible belonged to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard in Kisweh, killing a minimum of 15 folks, eight of them Iranians.
The IDF is responding to the rocket attacks, but the military had no more information on those responses at this time.
If confirmed, this would be the first rocket attack carried out directly by Iran, rather than by one of its proxies, against Israel. Israel’s military continues to be on high preparation and bomb shelters have been prepared for those living in unsafe areas.
Meanwhile, Israel fired several artillery shells at Syrian Arab Army positions near Damascus, multiple Middle East news outlets reported. It also found 62 percent of Israelis support the USA leaving the Iran deal, 17 were against it. Sixty-two percent are concerned war will break out, compared with 31 percent who say they are not.
Israel has long accused Iran of carrying out attacks on Israeli targets outside of Israel. “Israel completely has a sovereign proper to defend itself and we assist them in no matter efforts they’ve in an effort to defend themselves”. We attended very moving events – the parade marking the victory over the Nazis and other events, and of course there were also good and useful talks.
On the Israeli side, Tel Aviv has become determined to do something about the growing Iranian presence in Syria, and since its diplomatic approach with Russian Federation has largely failed to produce results, it has increasingly been willing to rely on its own military to step in.
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Netanyahu and Putin have held a series of meetings and phone conversations in recent months, particularly related to the conflict in Syria where Israel has vowed to prevent Iran building a military presence.
