Syria missile strikes (August 2019)

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Syria missile strikes (August 2019)
Part of the Iran–Israel conflict in the Syrian civil war
Location	North of Damascus, Syria
Planned by	Israel
Date	25 August 2019 (2019-08-25)
Executed by	Israeli Air Force

The strikes were conducted by the Israeli Air Force late at night on 25 August 2019.

Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an IDF spokesman, told that Israeli officials had been monitoring a plot for several months in which they thought Iran's Revolutionary Guards’ force had been planning to send explosives-laden attack drones into Israel. He claimed that the Iranians initially attempted to put the plan into motion on Thursday. However, Iran did not have a reaction.

Incident

According to the report of Syrian military by the official Sana news agency, At 23.30 aircraft defenses were detected from Golan heading towards the area around Damascus. According to the IDF sites in the town of Aqrabah, southeast of Damascus, near the city's airport was targeted. As a result of the strikes, several Military Intelligence units, air force squadrons, and air defense units were put on high alert. Supplementary air defenses forces were deployed to northern Israel for a precautionary measure.

As Syrian state TV announced, Syrian air army had responded to "hostile" targets over Damascus, they reported that "most of the hostile Israeli missiles were destroyed before reaching their targets".

As the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group mentioned, several missiles targeted positions maintained by foreign forces, while others were downed by air forces.

Since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011, Israel has managed hundreds of strikes in Syria, most of them against what it says are Iranian and Hezbollah targets. Direct clashes between Israel and Iranian forces have been rare.

Aftermath

According to Mohammed Afif, a spokesman of Hezbollah, a day after Israeli warplanes struck targets in Syria, two Israeli drones crashed in the southern suburbs of Beirut overnight, and one damaged a media office belonging to Hezbollah, although the Israeli military does not comment on it as "foreign reports".

Reaction

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by confirming the airstrike warned on Twitter that "Iran has no immunity anywhere. Our forces operate in every sector against the Iranian aggression. 'If someone rises up to kill you, kill him first.'"

Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an IDF spokesman stated that although Iranian forces had launched rockets and missiles at Israel from Syria three times during 2018, the use of Loitering munition set to explode on their targets was a new and "different tactic".

References

^ "Netanyahu hails Israel strikes against Syria to foil Iran 'killer drone attack'". The Guardian. 25 August 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
Kubovich, Yaniv (25 August 2019). "Israel Strikes Syria, Says It Foiled Iranian Drone Attack". Haaretz. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
^ "Israeli jets strike in Syria to thwart attack by Iranian 'killer drones'". Times of Israel. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
Carey, Andrew (24 August 2019). "Israel claims responsibility for airstrikes near Damascus, saying it foiled 'large-scale attack' by Iran". CNN. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
Ahronheim, Anna (25 August 2019). "IDF on high alert following strike, 2 Hezbollah militants killed". jpost. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
"Israel Attacks Iranian Forces Near Damascus - Spokesman". radiofarda. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
"حمله موشکی اسرائیل به سوریه". BBC News. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
^ Rambaran, Vandana (24 August 2019). "Israel says latest Syria airstrike thwarted 'imminent' attack by Iranian drones". foxnews.
Hubbard, Ben (25 August 2019). "Hezbollah Says Two Israeli Drones Damaged Its Office Near Beirut". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
"Israeli drone crashes, another explodes in Beirut: Hezbollah". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
"Hezbollah says Israeli drones go down in Beirut stronghold". Times of Israel. Retrieved 25 August 2019.

Syrian civil war

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Israel and Golan Heights:	March 2017 incident February 2018 incident May 2018 Israel–Iran incidents
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