Israeli missile fire over Damascus, Syria, 2019 (via BBC).
Israeli jets and surface-to-air batteries struck multiple targets belonging to the Iranian Quds Force near Damascus, Syria on Wednesday morning, as well as Syrian missile batteries that fired in response. The round of strikes came just hours after several missles were fired at Israeli military installations in the Golan Heights. There are no official reports of damage or casualties at the time.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immeidately discolsed Israel's role in the strikes in a public statement: "I made it clear that whoever harms us - we will harm them. That is what we did tonight in Syria against Iranian Quds Force targets and Syrian military targets, after rockets were fired from its territory towards Israel. We will continue to aggressively guard the security of Israel."
The volley of strikes comes a week after Israel targeted a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad political leader near Damascus in an airstrike last week, which is considered to be the impetus for the rocket attack in the Golan on Tuesday evening. The Iranian Quds Force is a leading patron of the PIJ, providing millions of dollars worth of weapons, training and materiel to the terrorist group in their ongoing war against Isarel from inside the Gaza Strip.
Photo: Israeli missile fire over Damascus, Syria, 2019 (via BBC).
Sources:
https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1196965953076154368/…/1
https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1196973332689833985
https://twitter.com/Syria_Protec…/status/1196935906072170497
https://twitter.com/LTCJonathan/status/1196968651724935168
https://twitter.com/Jtruzmah/status/1196936774297079809
http://live.jpost.com/…/Syrian-air-defenses-intercept-missi…