MESOP NEWS SERIOUS CLASHES : Israel Attacks “Iranian Control Systems” in Syria After Downing Tehran’s Drone
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) – By Scott Lucas – February 10, 2018 – eaworldview – Israel has attacked “Iranian control systems” in Syria after intercepting a drone that entered Israeli airspace. The Israel Defense Forces said the drone was downed early Saturday. The IDF then responded, according to a spokesman, with the attacks inside Syria: The IDF said the drone approach at around 4 am, setting off alarms near the Sea of Galilee. An Apache helicopter shot it down, and the army said it has the remains.
The IDF said it attacked the drone’s launch site, the Tiyas Military Airbase near Palmyra in central Syria, in “a complicated surgical strike” which targeted a facility housing the unmanned aircraft’s Iranian operators.The military added that the downed Israeli F-16 jet had been targeted by anti-aircraft fire before it crashed.Assad Regime Claims “New Aggression” by Israel
Air raid sirens were set off in northern Israel as Assad regime forces fired anti-aircraft artillery. One of the missiles fell inside Israel, but caused no damage.The Assad regime’s media, citing a military source, said, “The Israeli enemy entity at dawn today conducted a new aggression against one of the military bases in the central region. Our air defenses confronted it and hit more than one plane.”
Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have vowed that Iran and its ally, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, will not be allowed to establish positions near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.The IDF has periodically attacked regime facilities, warehouses, and convoys inside Syria to disrupt the supply of weapons to Hezbollah and to keep Iranian-backed forces from assembling near the Israeli border. Earlier this week, Israeli warplanes again reportedly struck a major regime defense complex north of Damascus. The Jamraya facility is reportedly instrumental in the regime’s missile development and chemical weapons program. www.mesop.de