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2021-07-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Report: Russia, exasperated, moving to curtail Israeli strikes in Syria
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[IsraelTimes] Arab paper claims that after getting sense US does not back ongoing Israeli raids, Moscow has taken steps to upgrade Syrian missile defenses.
Russia has "run out of patience" with Israel in Syria and is planning a shift in its policies toward Israeli sorties over the country, according to an unconfirmed report on Saturday.
The London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat cited an unnamed "well-informed" Russian source
...who may or may not be informed to any degree, or even Russian... as saying that following talks with Washington, Moscow had got the impression that "Washington does not welcome the continuous Israeli raids," and thus believes it has the freedom to act more aggressively to thwart them.
Clearly someone believes President Biden is not in Israel’s corner, and is willing to send out feelers to see if Israel can be intimidated. In light of this, the Russians were now supplying Syrian forces with more advanced anti-missile systems and know-how, making them more capable of shooting down Israeli armaments, the report said.
Unless the Russians are willing to man the things themselves, it won’t make any difference. It claimed the effect of this was already being seen, with Syrian air defenses shooting down seven of eight Israeli missiles during a July 19 Israeli raid.
There was no outside confirmation of the Arab newspaper’s report.
Syrian media reported two Israeli attacks this week, on Monday night and early Thursday. It claimed that in both cases most missiles were shot down — though Syria has regularly made such claims in the past, in what Syrian war analysts have generally believed to be empty boasts.
Israel’s military does not comment on reports of specific strikes in Syria save for those that are in retaliation for attacks from the country.
Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. Jerusalem fears Iranian entrenchment on its northern frontier, and it has repeatedly struck Iran-linked facilities and weapons convoys destined for Hezbollah.
Russia has repeatedly criticized Israeli strikes over the years.
In January, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Jerusalem should provide Moscow with intelligence about suspected threats so that it can "neutralize" them, rather than attack them itself.
"If Israel is really forced to respond to threats to the Israeli security coming from the Syrian territory, we have told our Israeli colleagues many times: if you see such threats, please give us the information," Lavrov said at the time.
Russia has deployed a large military presence in Syria to support dictator Bashir al-Assad through his country’s brutal civil war. In order to prevent unwanted festivities, Jerusalem and Moscow have maintained a so-called deconfliction mechanism, which has allowed the two countries to effectively communicate with one another and avoid altercations.
This mechanism has been generally successful, with the notable exception of an incident in September 2018, in which a Russian spy plane was shot down by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile that had been fired in response to an Israeli attack.
Moscow blamed Israel for the deaths of the troops on board the aircraft, saying Israeli planes had hidden behind the Russian aircraft, a charge that the Israel Defense Forces fiercely denied
No, no! Certainly not!
On Saturday, the Saudi-based al-Arabiya news network reported that Imad al-Amin, a military commander for Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy whose members have fought in Syria on behalf of Bashir al-Assad’s forces, was killed in one of the Israeli Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
s this week.
Hezbollah confirmed on Telegram that al-Amin was killed "while fulfilling his duties" but did not specify when or how, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported on Saturday night.
Al-Arabiya also reported that a bigwig in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Sayed Ahmed Qurayshi, was killed under unknown circumstances in Syria this week. There has been no official confirmation from Iran.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Qurayshi has been based in Syria since 2013 and had "participated in many military operations alongside Qassem Soleimani
," the former commander of the IRGC’s al-Quds Brigade who was killed by the US in January 2020.
Russia general appears to confirm Israeli strikes in Syria
Responding to this report of a successful [Israeli] attack early Thursday morning.
"Two F-16 fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force made a strike with four guided missiles on facilities in Homs province from the airspace of 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, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
," he says.
"All four missiles were destroyed by the Syrian duty air defense facilities, with the use of Buk-2ME systems of Russian manufacture."
Queerly enough, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which admittedly is not fond of the Assad government or its allies, reported the attack destroyed weapons and ammunition depots belonging to Hezbollah, suggesting at least one Israeli missile got through, if not more. Israeli planes carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s against targets in Homs on both Wednesday and Thursday nights, Damascus claims.
Israel’s military does not comment on reports of specific strikes in Syria, save for those that are made in retaliation. 
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