Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A wave of Israeli strikes hit Syria over the night of September 8 and 9, with later reports saying that missiles and air defense systems supplied recently by Turkey were targeted.
The strikes hit three military sites: the air defense academy near the town of Maskanah in the southern Homs countryside, an air defense storage complex near the town of Sqoubin in the eastern countryside of Latakia and an unidentified base near the ancient city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs.
Videos posted to social networks showed large fires with secondary explosions near Maskanah and Squoubin. However, there were no reports of casualties in any of the three targeted sites.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry condemned the Israeli strikes as “a blatant infringement” of its sovereignty and regional stability, saying in a statement published by the official Syrian Arab News Agency that they were part of an ongoing series of “escalations” pursued by Israel against Syrian territory.
Later, Al-Arabiya reported, citing an Israeli security source, that the strikes targeted Turkish-made missiles and air defenses which were recently delivered to Syria.
“The strikes targeted warehouses for Turkish-made missiles and air defense equipment in the city [of Homs], after they had been recently transferred to the targeted area,” the Saudi-owned news channel quotes the unnamed source as saying. “Turkey is trying to harass us and drag us into a military confrontation, which we do not fear, but do not want.”
The source noted that “Israel is negotiating with the Syrian leadership regarding security arrangements, but will not hesitate to use force when necessary.”
It added that “the internal situation in Syria is fragile,” and that “Israel insists on the demilitarization of southern Syria,” stressing that “Tel Aviv will strike any threat to its security, regardless of its source or location.”
Israel escalated its military operations following the fall of the Assad regime last December, invading the buffer zone adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights and launching hundreds of strikes to destroy the country’s military capabilities. At the time, it engaged in talks with Syria.
Last month, Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani met with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in France to discuss a possible security agreement. However, after the meeting Israeli special forces conducted a raid near the Syrian capital, Damascus. Turkish spying equipment were reportedly seized during the raid.
The latest strikes also come following a report by Israel’s Kan public broadcaster of an upcoming meeting between al-Shibai and Dermer this week.
Israel is clearly trying to up the pressure on Syria ahead of the next round of talks. While Israel appears to be interested in a security agreement, its recent military operations also indicate that it wants to end, or at least limit the scale of the alliance between Syria and Turkey.
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ignore these strikes, my fellow sunni fanatics. the real threat are still the remnants of the assad regime. every alawite is an assadist. my free syrian democratic republic has no space for this infidel filth. remember, every problem that still persists in our new utopian western-style democracy is due to assad.
don’t worry my brothers, we don’t need weapons or technology. soon we will defeat israel with sticks and stones.
clown show goes ape
ho ho ho ho ho the hts gang would deserve to see a stepan sindjelić 2 born in israel, to blow them up along with daraa, damascus, ankara, and his own israel. ho ho ho ho ho ho
hey israel doesn’t exist in 2027 santa…their death will come from syria…we will witness this i tell you
the world hates israel and israel thinks bombing is going to make the problem go away. israel has defeated itself.
the jews want us to hate them because they will samson option us into our own destruction when a certain treshold is reached if muslims and christians who will fight the jews directly. claiming as if they are the v ictim as rhey false flag russia and america into a full exchange of bombs. their plan is to wipe out 2/3rd of the world population as their torah says.
we need to break free from the jewish matrix and liberate ourselves from these demons before its toolate.
israel is simply a tool filled with heavily indoctrinated zio bots willingly working for the oil, military and banking cartels to use to control the regions oil through currency. this pirate cartel only see jewish people as easily expendable. and politically useful as the future scapegoat to blamed for all current regional conflicts. israelis are universally ignorant of this
the pirate monopolies view all human beings as expendable cattle to be used or enslaved. nothing else !
please, bibi, expel these murderous psychopaths to turkey. this hts must go back to turkey, like our heroes jan sobieski, ivan sirko, nikola zrinski, andreas ausperg, stevan sindjelic and miloš obelić who managed to kill the sultan.
are you indian or israeli
either way an ignorant bubble head
bibi the beast is not much longer for this world. karma will burn its evil a$$….very soon.
mr. israel katz, you should take inspiration from putler, who kil led one mill ion seven hun dred uk rai nian na zis and sto le 2 0% of u kr a in e.
ho ho ho ho bibi should bring a gun to a personal meeting with erdoğan. ho ho ho ho ho like puniša račić and miloš obilić. ho ho ho
enjoy your freedom you sunnis! you want nothing but peace with israhell and yet they are bombing you like you are their dogs! the only ones that really stood against the israhellis and the americunt empire was the shia! no one can say anything against that and history will show how sunnis left their sunni brothers in palestine to die while the shias gave everything they could for them and yet the sunnis sided with israhell against the shia!! what a crazy world we live in!
turkey and israel are the two faces of the same nato coin…
by the way. israhell just bombed another sunni country qatar. they attack the leaders of hamas there. lets wait for the sunni worlds revenge! i will not hold my breath for that. they are nothing but empty words. sunnis rather live on their knees like slaves and attack shias than die on their feet fighting the israhellis!
ho ho ho did the israelis kill hamas with a gun during a meeting? ho ho ho
wonderful! the evil idiot bea$t of telaviv, nutnyahoo and the rabid dog of ankara are all ready to go. get the popcrn on as the turkeys and the khazar filth kill each other.
it’s not enough, israel should kill more hts. i like that the idf is killing hts. i would like the israelis even more if the idf did what ivan sirko, miloš obilić, stevan sindljelić, or jan sobieski did.
the israeli terrorists know very well that their biggest supporter usa is on the verge of bankruptcy and collapse. that is why they are desperately trying to destroy the weapons of neighboring states as quickly as possible, because they know very well that this will no longer be possible without usa. the israeli terrorists still do not understand that their downfall will be sealed with the decline of the usa.
sure it wasn’t russian targets being hit?
cuckold moron as stupid as americunt
perhaps syria should cede the golan heights in exchange for security guarantees and the protection of their sovereingty and air space but not to israel but turkey instead. it would be so interesting.
it wont happen until now erdogan and aliyev are hand in hand with netanyahu big friends working towards syrias destruction. israel will just find a way to turn you turks against europe and have us wipe eachother out christians and muslims against each othee as their rabbis preach on and on. yosef mizrachi brags about it in his lectures on yutube
its time we stop letting the jews control us. and break free from their narrarives and matrix
inferior anericunt flip burger tantrum like bitch—scrub our toilets for tacos
undersrand atta turk was a jew and he destroyed churches greeks armenians asyrians. but left all synagogues standing most of the ottoman empire and its cultural diversity was destroyed this way jews control sunni islam for their own benefit the destruction of the west so they can samson option whatever muslims and christians remain and cr y out as if they were the victim. everything the germans and the turks are blamed for was done by these jews.
dumb americunts scrub our toilets inhale fentanyl
israel and its allies will destroy anyone in our way…heheheh
israel is the puppet filled attack dog wing of international oil and banking monopolies. historians may refer to this in 1000 years as the great oil wars
adesso sarà bastonata la turchia è di brutto israele può attaccare tutti e distruggerli.
then even the air defense systems are a ‘threat’ for israhell?
aw turkey is getting cucked like the rest of the western countries that are run by the deeep state (israhell) that must hurt the ottomans pride
no “agreement” is possible with such a rogue state, as demonstrated by its casual acts of war against not just neighbouring but regional states with which it has never previously indulged in armed conflict. ironic that the west aggressively supports a russo-ukrainian war that was caused by attempting to expand a military alliance .