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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Reports of explosions over the Syrian capital, Damascus
2021-04-08
Passover is over, so the IDF angel of death is back at work.
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The Times of Israel adds:
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has had its credibility questioned in the past, said the air strikes had targeted "military positions" near Damascus.

Later they added the strikes hit several positions near the city and "destroyed an arms depot that belongs to the Iranians."

This was the first reported Israeli strike in almost a month, since an alleged strike on reported weapons depots near the Damascus airport.

In February Israeli strikes also reportedly targeted the area of Damascus International Airport, through which Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
had allegedly been flying advanced munitions, as well as military sites around the Damascus suburb of el-Kisweh, a long-time base of Iranian operations. The strikes came days after drones reportedly bombed a shipment of advanced weapons that were being transported through Iraq into eastern Syria by Iranian proxies.

The IDF has launched hundreds of strikes in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011 against moves by Iran to establish a permanent military presence in the country and efforts to transport advanced, game-changing weapons to terrorist groups in the region, principally Hezbollah.
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