Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
An Israeli strike targeted the southern Syrian city of al-Qunitra on October 9, killing or wounding at least three security personnel.
The strike hit the eastern entrance of the city, which is located less than two kilometers away from the separation line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency. Citing a source in the al-Quneitra Police Command, the state-run agency said that a member of the country’s internal security forces was killed in the strike.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, said that two other security personnel were also wounded.
Prior to the strike, Hebrew media reported that an Israeli military drone crashed near the town of Beit Jinn in the Syrian governorate of Rif Dimashq which borders al-Qunitra.
The strike also came less than 24 hours after an Israeli strike hit a multi-story residential and commercial building in the Mezzah district of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing at least seven people, mostly women and children. The target of the strike was reported members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Israel escalated its attacks on Syria significantly since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
In recent days, Israeli drones and tanks shelled al-Qunitra and Rif Dimashq multiple times. A series of strikes also hit radar and air defense sites in the nearby governorates of Daraa and al-Suwayda. This led to speculations that Israel may be planning a surprise invasion into southern Syria to further pressure Hezbollah and even Iran.
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israel enjoys slapping syria around…russia is incapable of defending its ally…time for israel and usa to evict russia from syria!!!
heheheh
the sickness is so apparent in that demented trademark “heheheh” (rather like a screaching human donkey). it shows you up for the psychopath that you obviously are.
don’t hold your breath, shlomo. they’ve been trying to do it for 10 years without much luck. shlomo’s pet head choppers in isis are a busted flush.
the main thing is ukrainazia is finished, no matter what happens in syria, lebanon, iran, israel, uk, usa, eu…ukrainazia is for real the dead man walking…no more ukraine and no more ukrainians, yay…hehehehehehehehehe
why syrians did not fight back then? what kind of sovereign state is that allow its citizens slained so often? and where are the russians?
they are a sovereign state that relies on much russia. russia has been a great help to syria, but they also tie it’s hands. syria is in no position to argue with russia. for whatever reasons, russia fears israel, that much is plain to see. look at their reaction to 1 russian pilot and turkey. then look at 17 (iirc) dead russians on il-20. that pretty much says all one needs to know.
not even russian lives are as important as ‘israeli’ lives. that reply to israel, finally delivering syrian bought and paid for weapons, was even more obtuse when considering syria is not allowed to attack israeli planes with said systems. would russian reaction be the same had that been turkey and not israel? not likely. they brought turkey to their knees economically over 1 pilot, 17 dead by israel? nada.
“””for whatever reasons, russia fears israel, that much is plain to see.”””
it’s all down to putin’s rationality! – in ukraine it’s basically about the crimea (black sea port), and in syria it’s about the mediterranean port! that’s all russia is about!
contrary to this are the interests of the usa, they want to make russia dispute both.
the stupid negro obama spoke of russia as a “regional power”!
to call a country that borders on three continents a regional power shows what a child of spirit this negro is!
the attempts to make russia dispute its strategic military ports are part of an endless chain of completely misguided us foreign policy
but to come back to your observation: the last thing russia needs now is an even more aggressive israel, gradually an even more unstable syria, which could result in the loss of the russian mediterranean port
barry obomber, the shitcago pederast and his husband mike, are the epitome of how weak and debauched $lumville is.
because if syria fight back so jihadist idlib attack syria army so syria army cant attack israel
golan will be returned to the people of syria and the squatter cho$enite filth in occupied palestine will be scattered back to the ghettos which spawned them. karma always visits the evil doers and the evil of the jews knows no bounds.
the grandly styled “syrian observatory for human rights” is one individual, a syrian man who has not set foot in syria for 20 years, living in a terraced house in coventry, uk, who they use to launder disinformation and propaganda lies about syria, particularly gas attack hoaxes. he backs up the lies of human rights watch and amnesty international.
a paid asset of mi5, like abedi, the manchester arena bomber.