Israeli warplanes launched strikes in Syria early on Monday, targeting military positions in the southwest Daraa province. The Israeli military also reported strikes in Lebanon as the risk of Israel’s Gaza war turning into a full-blown regional war continues to rise.
The Israeli military said the strikes in Syria were in response to rocket fire that came from Syria. While the strikes could be related to Israel’s Gaza war, Israel frequently bombed Syria with impunity before the conflict and has stepped up strikes since.
A Syrian military source told Syria’s SANA news agency that the Israeli strikes caused some material damage and reported no casualties. “At around 1:35 am on Monday, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial act of aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting two positions of our armed forces in Daraa countryside,” the source said.
Monday’s airstrikes marked at least the 31st time Israel has bombed Syria this year. Since the October 7 Hamas attack, Israeli airstrikes have disabled the Damascus and Aleppo airport several times.
The Israeli military said its strikes in Lebanon targeted Hezbollah sites and were in response to rocket fire. Since October 7, Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged fire on a near daily basis. Dozens of Hezbollah fighters and some civilians, including a Reuters journalist, have been killed on the Lebanon side of the border by Israeli strikes.
Don’t understand why those S-300’s and S-400’s are not destroying those POS American aircraft
Per agreement for the supply of the equipment, Syria is not authorized to fire at Israel, this is due to security agreement Russia has with Israel and thus its equipment cannot be used against Israel, unless Israel directly attacks Russia. Funny enough this agreement was reached in negotiations between the two after Israel sneak attacked Russia during the active phase of the “ISIS eradication operation”. I guess Russia is naively sticking to its agreement, being agreement capable and all, whilst Israel does what Israel does best, unimpended. The Gods must be cruel, what an unjust world we live in.
China and especially Russia are now more powerful and influential than they were two decades ago. The aggressive militaristic actions or misdeeds of the Israeli state and army will not have good consequences for them.
If there are any such entities as “gods”, then they are and must be just and fair.
I think and hope that justice will prevail in this world. When the time is right everyone will be held accountable very appropriately, and everyone will get what is coming to them. And I’m not talking about or referring to the afterlife.
China, yes. But the Ukraine fiasco establishes that Russia is a shadow of its two-decade old self.
Hello Thomas, here I am, formally Old Guy back in a new outfit 😉 I tried to fix my OldGuy account, got lost in the weeds of Disqus and now have no way to recover it, so I’m starting over, and shall do my best to abide by your sage advice given yesterday to that guy OldGuy!
Glad to see you back! I’ll probably be relatively quiet today. I’m working, but doing so from a hospital waiting room while my wife has hernia surgery, so it’s small laptop screen and small keyboard time instead of y comfy desktop setup
Our very best wishes for your wife’s health and safe recovery…
I had such an operation about 6 years ago. Hope she is fine.
Since you’re on light duty today, I shall be extra careful to abide by the rules 😉
Tom, I hope all goes well with your wife and she has a speeding recovery.
Thanks! Surgery went well, now it’s the recovery part.
Which I thought might not be going so well. Fortunately I was wrong. When I left Tamara in the recovery room, sleeping comfortably, the plan was to get her into a regular patient room ASAP. A few hours later, her boss called to check up, and said that when she had called the hospital, Tamara was still in recovery. Then I had to go through a bunch of transferred calls and promises to have the (busy) nurse call me back, and wait for a couple of hours to find out what was up. She’s fine, conscious, responsive, they just don’t have a room yet. They’re transferring her from a recovery bed to a regular hospital bed because it’s firmer and more comfortable, but it may be tomorrow morning before there’s a real room available.
I’m very glad that the last time I was in the hospital (other than a few ER visits) was for my birth. And I plan to keep it that way. When I die, they’re going to have to send the meat wagon to pick my corpse up at my house.
My best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery for your wife.
Yeah! I am so glad RBE!
Congrats,I am looking forward to hearing your comments and wish you a long life and prosperity.
Thank you for the kind words.
It would be excellent and outstanding if countries and people were to be held responsible for their actions . But i would not and you should not hold your breath. Hitler rode high for a long time. So did Rome.
That is simple, fire at the IDF planes and the s-300/s-400 sites will disappear in a flash of light and a big bang.
As long as there are no consequences either military or economic Israel will proceed with the slaughter of Palestinians and the bombing and strafing of Syria with the permission and equipment given so generously by the US. They really are twins Biden and Netanyahu with a lot of support in their respective political arenas.
Faced with a massacre,Israel has no choice but to make Hamas pay a price ,and inflict serious damage. VERY RIGHTEOUS.
So I guess this is more “self defense” Then when Syria and Hezbollah fire back it is terrorism…..The US sick foreign policy has turned the region into Bizarroworld.
When you see a cancer growing,cut it off.
or you could throw radiation on it. but in this case a better analogy might be “bugs need to be squashed”, right?
Faced with massing enemy forces,it is totally just to disrupt them.
Well, you just can’t fix The Stupid.
Has Syria done anything to Israel lately to provoke these bombings? I haven’t heard about it. Gaza is on the opposite side of Israel from Syria.
Using its territory as a conduit for arms to Hezbollah.