Israel announced that it had targeted early positions on the Syrian army and Iran in Syria, a "response" to the Iranian launch of a surface-to-surface missile, killing 11 fighters, including Syrians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, while Damascus said its air defenses responded to the launch of missiles On Syria.
On the sidelines of the strikes in Syria, Iran and Israel exchanged vows, while a suicide bomber targeted an American convoy south of Hasaka.
In a statement, the Israeli army said in a statement that "the Quds Force (the Iranian Revolutionary Guard) launched a surface-to-surface missile from Syrian territory in the direction of the Golan Heights."
He added that "Iran is thus again providing clear evidence of its intention to establish its roots in Syria, which threatens the State of Israel and regional stability."
"In response to the attack, during the night, fighter jets attacked the military positions of the Iranian Qods Force in Syria and Syrian air defense batteries."
He pointed out that «targeted ammunition stores and a site at Damascus International Airport, an Iranian intelligence site, and an Iranian training camp for the Quds Force in Syria».
The Israeli army also said that "during the strikes dozens of Syrian surface-to-air missiles were fired. In response, several air defense batteries belonging to the Syrian armed forces were hit."
"We have seen an unacceptable attack by Iranian forces, not Shiite militias or Syrian forces, but Iranian forces fired an Iranian-made missile from the vicinity of Damascus on Israel's sovereign territory," Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricos told reporters.
On his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that he would not allow "aggressive Iranian actions." He said at a ceremony to inaugurate a new airport in southern Israel: "The Air Force has dealt a heavy blow against Iranian targets in Syria after Iran fired a missile from there Towards Israel. "
"We will not allow such acts of aggression. We are working against Iran and the Syrian forces, which are the tools of Iranian aggression. "
This comes after he said, the night before last, saying: «We have a firm policy is to bomb Iranian fortifications in Syria, and to harm anyone who tries to harm us».
"Young people in the air force are fully prepared and eagerly waiting to confront the Zionist regime and wipe it out of the face of the earth," Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh was quoted as saying in Tehran by the news agency of the Young Correspondents Club, a state-run television station.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights spoke about «intensive Israeli missile bombardment on the perimeter of Damascus International Airport, the suburbs of the capital Damascus and its southern and south-western suburbs». He added that "the missiles reached their targets, and hit sites and warehouses for the Iranians and (Hezbollah) Lebanese."
A military source told the official Syrian news agency (SANA): "The Israeli enemy struck a heavy ground and air (yesterday morning), and through successive waves of guided missiles." "Immediately, our air defense systems dealt with the situation, intercepted hostile missiles, destroyed most of them before reaching their targets, and dropped dozens of hostile targets launched by the Israeli enemy towards Syrian territory."
"The Israeli aggression was carried out from above Lebanese territory, from above the Galilee finger, from above the Sea of Galilee, using various types of weapons, and the air defenses managed to counter most hostile targets," she said.
The Russian army said four Syrian soldiers were killed, six wounded, 30 rockets and a bomb fired by Israel were destroyed. The Syrian Observatory said 11 fighters were killed, including two Syrians.
This comes at a time when a suicide bomber targeted a US convoy of the international coalition in northeastern Syria, killing five Syrian security forces and wounding two American soldiers, according to the Syrian Observatory Of human rights.
The bombing, the second of its kind against US forces in northern Syria in less than a week, killed five "Syrian Democratic Forces fighters assigned to protect US forces and wounded at least two US soldiers," according to the observatory.
An eyewitness reported that the blast occurred near a checkpoint for Kurdish forces as the American convoy passed.
In a statement on Twitter, the International Coalition reported that a "joint convoy of US and Syrian partner forces" was attacked by a car bomb. "There are no casualties among US forces."
Kurdish security forces, for their part, denied any casualties from the attack near one of its barriers, saying in a statement that a woman was lightly wounded.
Later, the terrorist organization "Da'ash" adopted the attack.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his US counterpart, Donald Trump, by phone yesterday that Turkey was prepared to take "security" in the city of Manbaj in northern Syria "without delay."
During a telephone conversation, the second between the two presidents in less than a week, Erdogan said that «Turkey is ready to take over security in the area of Manbaj without delay», according to the official Anatolia news agency.
According to Anatolia, Erdogan told Trump that the attack was a "provocation" aimed at influencing Trump's decision last month to withdraw his troops from Syria.
During the telephone conversation, Erdogan and Trump agreed to "continue the consultations that began between the chiefs of staff of the two countries, about the safe area in Syria," according to Anatolia.
Later in the day, Erdogan said Turkey would never allow a safe area in Syria to turn into a "quagmire" as it had been in northern Iraq.
Speaking at an Ankara event, Erdogan said Turkey would work with anyone who wanted to provide logistical support to the planned safe area, but added that it would take action on Syria if there was no fulfillment of the pledges Ankara had received.