It’s pretty common for Israeli warplanes to attack targets inside Syria, and it’s very rare for Syria to do anything about it. This appears to be giving Israeli officials a sense that they’re entitled to attack Syria whenever the mood strikes, and led to a furious reaction overnight when Israeli warplanes were raiding Syria, and came under fire from Syrian air defenses.
Israel responded with a new round of attacks against Syrian air defense batteries east of the capital city of Damascus, presenting it as “retaliation” for Syria daring to fire on the warplanes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted such attacks are “not acceptable,” and that Israel will continue to strike Syria whenever it sees fit.
Throughout Syria’s war, Israel has regularly attacked Syrian military targets, particularly in the country’s south. Though Israel says they are “neutral” on the Syrian war, top officials have regularly said they would prefer ISIS winning in Syria instead of the Assad government.
Israeli officials say they believe that they can continue to strike Syria with impunity, or at least without the Russian military being too angry, so long as the attacks don’t directly threaten the Assad government’s survival. Russia has, however, warned Israel at times, particularly regarding operations around Russian bases on the Syrian coast.
There has been no word of casualties from the attacks so far. Israeli forces say their plane was not hit, and the destroyed anti-aircraft battery has been identified as an S-200, an obsolete Soviet-era design.
Ditz why no tell us plane was in Lebanon ?
Syria has every right to defend itself with anti-missile weaponry against Israel’s aggression. That’s what anti-missile defenses are for, to shoot enemy aircraft (in this case, IDF aircraft) out of the skies. The Zionist Entity now thinks it has carte blanche to bomb Syria whenever it chooses .. It’s time for Syria to use its S-400 missile defense systems to give the Zionist Entity a dose of its own medicine.
Syria attacked Israel in 1948, 1967 & 1973 so Syria is the aggressor.
Israel is neutral in Syria? I believe Israeli military officers have been captured in Syria fighting with the terrorists, how is that neutral.
Netanyahu boasted about attacking Syria hundreds of times. That;s not ‘neutral’.
Evidence?
Putin is playing the waiting game on Israel.
There is a big picture Putin has to deal with… as well as internal divisions in the Kremlin
How does Israel help with that?
I think Syria, at Putin’s order, is waiting for Israel to roll in with some big air strike before unleashing the full weight of AA fire on them. And when those wrecks- and possibly captured air crews- are paraded in front of the world, Tel Aviv is going to have some ‘splainin to do.
Time for Russian s-400s in Syria… This can’t go on…
So poor little victim Israel, against which the whole UN is biased, so we are told, can attack Syria, whose Golan heights land it has occupied for decades, any time it wants, and attacks Lebanon , overflying it every day. What an ally.
For years Israel has been overflying Lebanon and deliberately creating sonic booms to shake buildings, scare children and break windows. Complaints to the UN accomplish nothing,
The UN is biased against Israel.
For example, the UN criticized only one country for its treatment of women. It was not Saudi Arabia where women were not allowed to drive. It was not Egypt or Iraq or Yemen where girls suffer from female genital mutilation. It was not Palestine or Jordan or Iran where women are subjected to honor killings. It was Israel – a country that has had a female prime minister & female fighter pilots.
Israel, as usual, was ready with its ‘story’.