Israeli army carried out 200 airstrikes on Syria since early 2017

Israeli army says it hit sites north of the border as the county's civil war rages on, including with proxies from Iran

By JTA
5 September 2018, 5:39 pm
Smoke rise from Syrian village as a result of fighting near the city of Quneitra, in the Golan Heights, 24 June 2017. An Israeli army spokesman reported that in response to over ten projectiles launched from Syrian soil which hit Israel, Israeli aircraft targeted the position from which the launches originated and struck tanks belonging to the Syrian regime in the Northern Syrian Golan Heights. An official protest has been filed with United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). Photo by: Ayal Margolin- JINIPIX

The Israeli army has carried out 200 airstrikes in Syria in the past 18 months, a senior military army official told the Israeli media.

In the hours after the Israel Defence Forces’ acknowledgement of attacks on Tuesday, Syria’s official state-run SANA news agency reported that its military Defence systems intercepted several Israeli missiles, but also said that Israeli missiles struck several military targets in Tartous and Hama, killing one and injuring four.

Israel, as it usually does, neither confirmed nor denied Tuesday’s attack.

The 200 airstrikes on Syria since the beginning of 2017 mostly targeted weapons shipments heading for the terrorist group Hezbollah and Iranian military installations in Syria, the unnamed Israeli military official said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted repeatedly that Israel will not stop taking action in Syria against Iran’s attempts to establish a military presence there.

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