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On Wednesday night, the Israeli army said it had bombed military positions in neighboring Syria. A total of eight targets from the Iranian Quds Brigades and Syrian troops were attacked, said Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus. According to the Syrian news agency Sana, three soldiers were killed.
Conricus said Israel was responding to explosives that were discovered the previous day on the Israeli side of the border. They placed a Syrian unit under Iranian leadership. The Israeli army posted an image on Twitter allegedly showing the explosives and their location in the border area.
During the attack in Syria, Syrian warehouses, military installations and surface-to-air missile batteries were shelled, the army said in a statement. The discovery of the explosives is “further proof of the Iranian establishment in Syria.” Israel holds Syria responsible for all attacks from its territory and will continue to act against them. “The Israeli army remains increasingly prepared and prepared for various scenarios.”
Conricus said the explosives were found near the site where an attempted attack on Israeli troops in August was thwarted. “It is the same place in the south of the Golan Heights west of the Alpha Line.” This line separates the Golan Heights, which Israel occupied in 1967, from Syria.
“It seems that the message was not clear enough”
In response, Israel bombed targets in Syria in August. “It seems that the message we tried to convey last time was not clear enough,” Conricus said. “We hope this time it is clear.”
This time targets were fired in the area from the border to the suburbs of Damascus, the military spokesman said. These include an Iranian headquarters at Damascus International Airport and a secret military facility used to receive high-ranking guests from Iran. This facility attacked Israel for the first time.
Israel is calling on UN troops in the Golan Heights to ensure compliance with the ceasefire, Conricus said. The blue helmets of the Undof mission control a buffer zone of approximately 235 square kilometers between Israel and Syria.
Israel repeatedly bombs targets in Syria, but rarely makes official statements. The attacks are primarily directed at troops and facilities associated with Shiite Iran. The Tehran regime views Israel as an arch enemy and, at the same time, is a close ally of the ruler Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. Israel wants to prevent Iran from expanding its influence there and, above all, its military installations.
