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On the night of Saturday to Sunday, Israeli warplanes carried out strikes in Syria. It was said, says the Israeli army, to prevent an Iranian force to launch an attack against Israel with drones loaded with explosives.
On the night of Saturday 24 to Sunday, August 25, the Israeli air force " was able to prevent an Iranian attempt by al-Quods force (elite unit of the Revolutionary Guards, Ed.) To carry out an attack from Syria against targets in northern Israel with killer drones , "an army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters. Just minutes after speaking, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu hailed " major operational action ". " Iran has no immunity, " Netanyahu said.
A " significant " threat
The Israeli raid took place in Aqraba, southeast of Damascus, according to Jonathan Conricus, and targeted " several terrorist targets and military installations belonging to al-Quods force as well as Shiite militias ." The Israeli army prevented Thursday a previous attempt to launch a drone attack, he said, without providing details. " The threat was significant and these killer drones were able to hit targets with real efficiency ," he said. Conricus also noted that while Iranian forces launched rockets and missiles against Israel three times in 2018, the use of "kamikaze" drones to explode on their targets was a new and " different " tactic.
In Lebanon, a drone fell on Sunday shortly before dawn and another exploded in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah, told AFP an official of the Shiite movement. The incident came hours after the Israeli strikes in neighboring Syria. But the official was not able to say whether the drones were Israeli and if they had been shot down by the Shia movement. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the start of the war in that country in 2011, most targeting Iranian or Hezbollah targets in the Jewish state, but it is rare for it to communicate about its interventions so quickly.
" The aggression was immediately taken care of "
Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shiite group that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is backed by Tehran. Israel wants to prevent Iran from settling militarily in Syria in a sustainable way. On the Syrian side, a military source quoted by the official Sana news agency said that the Syrian army's anti-aircraft defense had gone into action on Saturday evening to counter " Israeli missiles " from the Golan and aimed at the area around Damascus. , stating that most had been shot before reaching their targets. " The aggression was immediately taken over and now, the majority of enemy Israeli missiles have been destroyed before reaching their targets, " the source said. In Damascus, an AFP correspondent heard several loud explosions before the Sana agency announced the defensive action.
( with AFP )