HOSTILITIES REIGNITED IN GALILEE, SOUTHWEST SYRIA
MORE ANTI-IRAN AIRSTRIKES IN SYRIA
ISRAEL POUNDS SYRIA AFTER EXPLOSIVES PLOT FOILED
IRANIAN BACKED MILITIA IN SYRIA THREATENS ISRAELI GOLAN HEIGHTS
A screenshot of the Liwa Fatemiyoun video showing their view of the Israeli Golan Heights from inside Syria (via: @Jtruzmah. Twitter)
Liwa Fatemiyoun, an Afghani Shi’a milita fighting in Syria and sponsored by Iran, published a video on Twitter yesterday which shows the group positioned just a few kilometers from the Israeli Golan Border inside southwest Syria. The video, as translated by reporter Joe Truzman on Twitter, boasts that the group’s combat experience in the Syrian Civil War was just “preparations for confronting Zionism” and that the Israeli Golan Heights are the groups “Final Target.”
Liwa Fatemiyoun’s threats echo those of their benefactor, Iran, whose military and religious leadership have repeatedly threatened to destroy the Jewish State. The head of Iran’s army even claimed that Tehran has a strategy to cause the collapse of Israel within the next quarter-century.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/Jtruzmah/status/1209378917041049600
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Irans-Afghan-mercenaries-threaten-Israel-from-Golan-611967?fbclid=IwAR19jSPJk-bbIhk4YTIzDI-Ah2QNHNLnoqapcXUoMy3Xy4iNxEBQbJSqhtY
https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-iranian-general-threatens-to-destroy-israel-us/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-iran-threatens-to-annihilate-israel-hezbollah-boast-of-reach-of-rockets/
BREAKING: ISRAELI MISSILES STRIKE MULTIPLE IRANIAN, SYRIAN TARGETS INSIDE SYRIA AFTER GOLAN ATTACK
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…
BREAKING: MISSILE FIRED TOWARD MILITARY INSTALLATION IN GOLAN HEIGHTS
Photo: Deployment of the Iron Dome system (Credit: Raython).
Rocket fire from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights this evening was intercepted by Iron Dome. The presumed target was an IDF installation in the Israeli Golan and not civilian communities. Based on statements from Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders in Syria, the attack may have been a limited response to an Israeli air strike against the home of one of their political leaders near Damascus last week.
It is yet to be seen whether the IDF will respond to the rocket fire. Both sides in the conflict have sought to deescalate after a brief conflict on the Gaza front last week that saw the launch of 450 rockets into Southern Israel and multiple IAF airstrikes in Gaza that killed two dozen PIJ leaders and fighters.
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