An Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jet flies during an aerial demonstration. (photo credit: AMIR COHEN – REUTERS)
Early on February 9, two waves of Israeli strikes targeted military positions around the Syrian capital, Damascus, in a new escalation.
“Around 12:56 of today’s morning, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression with salvos of missiles launched from the southwest of [the Lebanese capital] Beirut, and around 1:10 it carried out an aggression with ground-to-ground missiles from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, targeting positions around Damascus city,” an official Syrian military source told the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
Syria’s heavy air defense fire was not able to prevent losses. According to SANA’s source, the Israeli strikes claimed the life of a Syrian service member, identified as Lieutenant Zulfiqar Fayez Mansour, and wounded five others. Material losses were also reported as a result of the strikes.
Damascus sky
moment when the Syrian AD missile accurately intercepted one of the Israeli missiles … pic.twitter.com/T8vIilXX3E— Spriter (@spriter99880) February 9, 2022
Another video of the Syrian air defenses destroying an Israeli missile in the vicinity of Damascus last night. pic.twitter.com/aNom2ZMG4g
— SAM 🇸🇾 (@SAMSyria0) February 9, 2022
The skies of Damascus, Syria.
It is reported that the Israeli Air Force destroyed the SAM Syrian battery that fired the missiles. pic.twitter.com/7tgeMNUvL1
— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) February 8, 2022
لحظة تصدي صاروخ من الدفاعات الجوية السورية لأحد الأهداف المعادية في سماء دمشق . pic.twitter.com/SQAOEPZfft
— ملك السلطنه (@jamlyyyyy_) February 8, 2022
دفاعاتنا الجوية تتصدى لأهداف معادية في سماء دمشق pic.twitter.com/x5MHaiIDDm
— ملك السلطنه (@jamlyyyyy_) February 8, 2022
دفاعاتنا الجوية تسقط عدداً من صواريخ العدوان الصهيوني على محيط دمشق pic.twitter.com/y7cj9qdnUC
— ملك السلطنه (@jamlyyyyy_) February 8, 2022
الدفاعات الجوية السورية تتصدى لأهداف معادية في سماء العاصمة دمشق pic.twitter.com/3dHu1rNN7Q
— ملك السلطنه (@jamlyyyyy_) February 8, 2022
من تصدي دفاعاتنا الجوية للأهداف المعادية في سماء #دمشق pic.twitter.com/MPQiKxasTn
— الوكالة العربية السورية للأنباء – سانا (@SanaAjel) February 9, 2022
أضرار بمنازل المدنيين وأملاكهم في قدسيا بـ #ريف_دمشق جراء العدوان الإسرائيلي فجر اليوم والذي استهدف أيضاً بعض النقاط في محيط مدينة #دمشق
تصوير : #محمد_السعدوني pic.twitter.com/xDDmMlh3rC— الوكالة العربية السورية للأنباء – سانا (@SanaAjel) February 9, 2022
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ignored the first wave of strikes on Syria. However, they said that the second wave was a response to Syria’s air defense fire, in particular to an anti-aircraft missile that penetrated Israel’s airspace before exploding over the northern town of Umm al-Fahm.
“In response to the anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria earlier tonight, we just struck surface-to-air missile targets in Syria, including radar and anti-aircraft batteries,” the IDF said on Twitter.
Israeli activists shared a photo showing a piece of the Syrian air-defense missile that exploded over Umm al-Fahm. The peice fell in the nearby town of of Jaba’.
According to Palestinian media reports, shrapnel from the Syrian air-defense missile also landed near a home in the town of Jaba’, in the northern West Bank pic.twitter.com/Co4junWgtB
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) February 8, 2022
Russia’s ambassador to Syria, Alexander Efimov, condemned the strikes and called on Israel to end its attacks on the war-torn country.
“Russia strongly condemns Israeli air raids in Syria and calls for them to end. Consistently and at various levels, we bring this position to West Jerusalem,” the ambassador told Sputnik.
This was the second Israeli attack on Syria in less than ten days. On January 31, a series of Israeli airstrikes targeted military positions in the outskirts of Damascus. Only material losses were reported back then.
The recent strikes are a part of Israel’s “War-Between-Wars” military campaign. The campaign is meant to push Iran and its allies out of Syria as well as to prevent them from developing their offensive capabilities. None of these goals have been achieved, yet.
Russia called on Israel to halt attacks,right!! what if they don’t? maybe time for Hezbollah to give the Zionist pigs a taste of it.
Well. they will strongly bring the position to the “west Jerusalem”! At various levels, no less!!
So it probably means first they have to move their embassy there.
Allow Iran to supply Lebanon air defense system but allow Gez to operate them. Too many Jew slave traitors in Lebanon army
I think you mean “Hez” but yes, an excellent idea! There are too many Jew slave traitors and the Lebanese army is sh!te anyway. It’s like a kid’s toy market. The qu33rs in the army and the qu33rs in charge are too busy thinking about their designer clothes and hair gel.
Also this proves that Russia is just an occupying force.
only in your deluded mind,the ones occupying are the Empire of chaos in North east Syria.
Which ones are you talking about? The ones Russia is allied with and will neither attack nor defend Syria against, like Israel to the south, or the Americans?
Yes they occupied north east because they are syrians on their own land just logical
Russia is occupying what, Syria? Go ask Syrians instead of spamming idiotic nonsense for shekels, typical hasbara tactics.
You right they are just occupation troops.
Thanks again to the treacherous Poo-tin, who cannot say no to his Zio terrorist Jew new God, gay boy Bennett. The ambassador should STFU and instead address his Jew worshipping Pootin. Russia constantly allows the world’s master terrorist, the children of Lucifer, the vipers of the world, the squatters in Occupied Palestine, to bomb Syria at will and yet claim to be helping them???WTF???
What an absolute sh!te title for the article!!! What do you mean 6 soldiers killed or wounded??? This more or less suggests that nearly 6 were killed, maybe 4 or 5!!! What you DH should have put because the figures are accurate and small…. “1 soldier killed, 5 wounded” which is miles better than “SIX SOLDIERS KILLED OR WOUNDED”… !d!ots….