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Shirika la habari la serikali ya Syria, SANA, limeripoti mapema Alhamisi kuwa Israel imeshambulia maeneo kadhaa karibu na mji mkuu Damascus huku shirika hilo likidai kuwa mifumo ya ulinzi wa makombora ya nchi hiyo iliangusha idadi kadhaa ya makombora.
Taarifa kutoka SANA ilieleza kuwa, mashambulizi ya Israel yalielekezwa katika maeneo ya al-Kiswah, Marj al-Sultan pamoja na Jisr Baghdad.
Kwa mujibu wa taarifa kutoka taasisi inayofuatilia masuala ya vita na haki za binadamu nchini Syria (SOHR), maeneo yasiyopungua matatu (3) ya serikali ya Syria pamoja na Iran karibu na Damascus na magharibi mwa mji mkuu yalikuwa yamelengwa ambapo moto ulitokea katika moja ya maeneo.
Msemaji wa Jeshi la Ulinzi la Israel hakutoa maelezo yoyote kuhusiana na mashambulizi hayo.
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Syria: Israeli strikes target bases near Damascus, claims to intercept missiles
Monitor says least three government and Iranian positions targeted in raids on several sites around Syrian capital; no comment from IDF.
Explosions in the sky over Damascus on February 6, 2020. (screencapture/Twitter)
Syrian state media said early Thursday that Israel launched strikes against several targets near Damascus and claimed the country’s air defenses downed a number of missiles.
“Our air defenses confronted an Israeli attack” west of the capital, said state news agency SANA, adding that the attack was carried out from “occupied Syrian” airspace in the Golan heights.
They “were able to shoot down most of the enemy missiles before they reached their targets”, SANA said.
AFP correspondents in several districts of Damascus heard loud explosions around 1:15 am (2315 GMT).
State television broadcast images showing explosions in the sky.
SANA specified that the Israeli strikes targeted the al-Kiswah area already targeted several times in the past but also Marj al-Sultan and Jisr Baghdad.
At least three government and Iranian positions near Damascus and west of the capital had been targeted, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which said a fire broke out in one of the areas.
A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces declined to comment.
Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Israel has carried out many raids against Syrian government forces and their allies, Iran and Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah group.
In November 2017, Western intelligence officials told the BBC that Iran had established a permanent military base in el-Kiswah, known as T-4. Israel has reportedly hit the base several times.
In mid-January, Damascus again accused the Israeli air force of carrying out an attack on the T4 military airport in central Syria.
Israel regularly insists that it will not let Syria become a bridgehead for Tehran. Israel accuses Iran of seeking to set up a military presence in Syria that could be used to threaten the Jewish state.
In November, the Israeli army claimed responsibility for a series of air strikes against government military sites and Iranian forces that killed 23 people including 16 foreigners, according to SOHR.
Source: The Times of Israel
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Israel hits Iran-backed posts in Syria, casualties reported
BEIRUT - Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes early on Thursday near Damascus, wounding eight soldiers, Syrian state media said, while an opposition war monitoring group said the strikes targeted army positions as well as Iran-backed fighters, killing 12.
The state news agency SANA said the Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles in the suburbs of the capital and the country’s south before they reached their targets. It said the Israeli warplanes fired the missiles while flying over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and neighboring Lebanon.
SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying that eight soldiers were wounded in the airstrikes, adding that they caused material damage as well.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the Syrian war through a network of activists on the ground, said the airstrikes that occurred after midnight on Wednesday. They hit Syrian army positions and those of Iranian-backed militiamen west and south of the capital, as well as the Mazzeh military air base in Damascus. the Observatory said.
A “large number of missiles” hit multiple positions in these areas, triggering a fire at the Scientific Research Center in the Damascus suburb of Jamraya. The Observatory said the strikes killed 12 Syrians and non-Syrian Iran-backed fighters, adding that the deaths occurred in the southern village of Izraa and the southern Damascus suburb of Kisweh.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Israel does not usually comment on reports concerning its airstrikes in neighboring Syria, though it has recently acknowledged striking Iranian targets there. Iranian-backed fighters, including those of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, have joined Syria’s war and are fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government forces.
Source: Associated Press News
Taarifa kutoka SANA ilieleza kuwa, mashambulizi ya Israel yalielekezwa katika maeneo ya al-Kiswah, Marj al-Sultan pamoja na Jisr Baghdad.
Kwa mujibu wa taarifa kutoka taasisi inayofuatilia masuala ya vita na haki za binadamu nchini Syria (SOHR), maeneo yasiyopungua matatu (3) ya serikali ya Syria pamoja na Iran karibu na Damascus na magharibi mwa mji mkuu yalikuwa yamelengwa ambapo moto ulitokea katika moja ya maeneo.
Msemaji wa Jeshi la Ulinzi la Israel hakutoa maelezo yoyote kuhusiana na mashambulizi hayo.
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Syria: Israeli strikes target bases near Damascus, claims to intercept missiles
Monitor says least three government and Iranian positions targeted in raids on several sites around Syrian capital; no comment from IDF.
Explosions in the sky over Damascus on February 6, 2020. (screencapture/Twitter)
Syrian state media said early Thursday that Israel launched strikes against several targets near Damascus and claimed the country’s air defenses downed a number of missiles.
“Our air defenses confronted an Israeli attack” west of the capital, said state news agency SANA, adding that the attack was carried out from “occupied Syrian” airspace in the Golan heights.
They “were able to shoot down most of the enemy missiles before they reached their targets”, SANA said.
AFP correspondents in several districts of Damascus heard loud explosions around 1:15 am (2315 GMT).
State television broadcast images showing explosions in the sky.
SANA specified that the Israeli strikes targeted the al-Kiswah area already targeted several times in the past but also Marj al-Sultan and Jisr Baghdad.
At least three government and Iranian positions near Damascus and west of the capital had been targeted, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which said a fire broke out in one of the areas.
A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces declined to comment.
Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Israel has carried out many raids against Syrian government forces and their allies, Iran and Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah group.
In November 2017, Western intelligence officials told the BBC that Iran had established a permanent military base in el-Kiswah, known as T-4. Israel has reportedly hit the base several times.
In mid-January, Damascus again accused the Israeli air force of carrying out an attack on the T4 military airport in central Syria.
Israel regularly insists that it will not let Syria become a bridgehead for Tehran. Israel accuses Iran of seeking to set up a military presence in Syria that could be used to threaten the Jewish state.
In November, the Israeli army claimed responsibility for a series of air strikes against government military sites and Iranian forces that killed 23 people including 16 foreigners, according to SOHR.
Source: The Times of Israel
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Israel hits Iran-backed posts in Syria, casualties reported
BEIRUT - Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes early on Thursday near Damascus, wounding eight soldiers, Syrian state media said, while an opposition war monitoring group said the strikes targeted army positions as well as Iran-backed fighters, killing 12.
The state news agency SANA said the Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles in the suburbs of the capital and the country’s south before they reached their targets. It said the Israeli warplanes fired the missiles while flying over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and neighboring Lebanon.
SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying that eight soldiers were wounded in the airstrikes, adding that they caused material damage as well.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the Syrian war through a network of activists on the ground, said the airstrikes that occurred after midnight on Wednesday. They hit Syrian army positions and those of Iranian-backed militiamen west and south of the capital, as well as the Mazzeh military air base in Damascus. the Observatory said.
A “large number of missiles” hit multiple positions in these areas, triggering a fire at the Scientific Research Center in the Damascus suburb of Jamraya. The Observatory said the strikes killed 12 Syrians and non-Syrian Iran-backed fighters, adding that the deaths occurred in the southern village of Izraa and the southern Damascus suburb of Kisweh.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Israel does not usually comment on reports concerning its airstrikes in neighboring Syria, though it has recently acknowledged striking Iranian targets there. Iranian-backed fighters, including those of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, have joined Syria’s war and are fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government forces.
Source: Associated Press News
