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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Alleged Israeli strikes hit Syria for 2nd time, hours after attack on air defenses

2023-09-14

[IsraelTimes] Two Syrian soldiers killed, six maimed in initial attack on Tartus; second strike in Hama area causes ’material losses’

The Israeli Air Force allegedly carried out ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s against targets in northern Syria on Wednesday night, hours after the Israeli military was reported to have targeted nearby air defense systems.

Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a military source, said the IAF fighter jets launched missiles from over northern Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
toward the Syrian city of Hama.

The state-run media outlet said that there were "material losses " as a result of the strikes against targets in the Hama area.

Earlier Wednesday, the Israeli military allegedly carried out rare daylight strikes against targets near the coastal Syrian city of Tartus — some 80 kilometers west of Hama — killing two soldiers.

SANA, citing a military source, said, "The Israeli enemy" launched missiles from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, targeting a number of air defense sites in the Tartus area.

The report did not specify if the attack was carried out by warplanes or naval vessels.

Aside from the two soldiers killed, six others were maimed and there were "material losses" in the initial strike, the source said.

The first strike appeared to be a suppression of enemy air defenses, or SEAD, mission, aimed at paving the way for Israeli fighter jets to strike targets without needing to evade Syrian air defenses.

In recent years, numerous Syrian soldiers serving in air defense units have been killed or maimed in airstrikes attributed to Israel.

While Israel’s military does not, as a rule, comment on specific strikes in Syria, it has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country, over the last decade.

The Israeli military says it attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.

The last alleged Israeli sortie over Syria was carried out on August 28, when fighter jets reportedly carried out strikes against Aleppo International Airport, putting it out of service for two days.

From an earlier Times of Israel report on the story:

Hebrew media, relying on an unverified claim by Britannia-based watchdog Syria Observatory for Human Rights, report that three Hezbollah members were killed.

معلومات عن تعرض نقطة عسكرية في منطقة الجماسة بريف طرطوس لعدوان اسرائيلي pic.twitter.com/O0lYw9ZHUp
— Yusha Yuseef 🇸🇾 (@MIG29_) September 13, 2023

Translation:

Information about a military point in the Al-Jamasa area in the countryside of Tartous being subjected to Israeli aggression

Posted by:trailing wife

#2 Good find, Grom. Thank you.

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-09-14 21:11

#1 Opposition source: The target was 'warehouses with Iranian equipment'

Persian carpets? Pistachios?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-14 04:57

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