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2023-12-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

IDF says it carried out strikes in Syria early Saturday after two rockets fired at Golan Heights

[IsraelTimes] Israeli targeting of Syrian sites comes less than two days after it struck area around Damascus airport and four days after IDF reportedly killed IRGC general.

The Israeli army said early Saturday that it was carrying out strikes in Syria after two rockets fired from the country fell in the Golan Heights.

It was the latest in a string of heightened activity by Israel in Syria over the past week.

"Following the report regarding sirens sounding in northern Israel, a short while ago two launches that were identified crossing from Syria fell in an open area," the army said Friday.

"The IDF is striking the sources of fire," it added.

The army also said it struck "terror infrastructure" belonging to Hezbollah in southern Leb
Leb

...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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...
, including a launch site used by the terror group following a number of cross-border attacks earlier Friday.

The IDF confirmed to AFP that the projectiles fired from Syria were rockets, but did not say the precise location where they fell.

An Israeli strike targeted the area around the Syrian capital of Damascus on Thursday, the Syrian defense ministry and state media said.

Citing a military source, SANA said air defenses shot down "most" of the missiles launched by Israeli fighter jets from over the Golan Heights, but that there were "material losses."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor reported Israeli strikes targeting a Syrian air defense position in the country’s southern Sweida province, as well as near Damascus international airport.

The attack near the airport came "one whole day after the airport resumed flights," said the British-based monitor of unclear funding, with a network inside Syria.

Damascus international airport had been out of service since it was targeted by alleged Israeli strikes in late November, just hours after flights resumed following similar strikes the previous month.

The airport was not damaged in the latest strike, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

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