Israel Bombed Iranian Targets, Syria Media Reports
21 April, 2020 |
6 years ago
Jerusalem, 21 April, 2020 (TPS-IL) -- The Israeli Air Force (IAF) on Monday night bombed Iranian targets inside Syria, the country’s state media reported.
Syria’s official SANA news agency reported that the Syrian Army’s air defenses “confronted an Israeli aggression” over Palmyra, East of Homs, and “shot down a number of the hostile missiles.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) quoted its activists inside the country who reported that explosions were heard in the eastern countryside of Homs, caused by regime anti-aircraft defenses which were intercepting strikes by Israeli aircraft launched from Lebanese airspace.
The strikes targeted three military posts of Iranian militias in the Palmyra desert.
Reports emerging from Syria indicate that Iranian officers were meeting with Hezbollah field commanders at the time of the attack and were apparently engaged in discussing future plans against Israel.
It was also reported that a number of people who were at the scene were injured.
Israel has remained silent on the reports, as in most previous incidents.
Israel reportedly last bombed targets in Syria on March 31when it attacked the Al-Shayrat airbase in Homs with more than eight missiles.
Iran’s military build-up in Syria remains a red line for Israel. The IAF has carried out thousands of attacks to thwart the Iranian entrenchment in the war-torn country.
Iran uses its positions in Syria to transfer weapons and infrastructure to its terror proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, while attempting to establish another military front against Israel from the Syrian Golan Heights.
Israeli has repeatedly warned it will not tolerate such a threat on its northern border.
