[AnNahar] Posts for Leb's
Hizbullah...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
were among those hit in the unprecedented Israeli air raids in Syria overnight, a monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes targeted posts "likely belonging to Hizbullah in the southwest of the city of Homs" and "other posts for Hizbullah and pro-regime fighters in the triangle of Daraa, Quneitra and Damascus' southwest countryside."
The Israeli raids also hit "the Muadamiyat al-Sham town west of Damascus, in which fighters from Hizbullah, Iran and the Syrian regime's Fourth Battalion are deployed," the Observatory added.
Israel's army said Thursday it had carried out widespread raids against Iranian targets in Syria overnight after rocket fire towards its forces which it blamed on Iran, marking a sharp escalation between the two enemies.
Lebanon Hit by Missiles Debris from Israel-Iran Syria Flare-Up
[AnNahar] Debris from several missiles landed overnight in several Lebanese regions during an unprecedented military flare-up between Israeli, Iranian and Syrian forces.
"Between 3:00 and 3:45 am, and as a result of the incidents that took place in Syria, remnants and tails of missiles of unidentified types and sources landed in the outskirt of the Hasbaya town of al-Hibbariyeh, the Shebaa town of Saqiyat Wadi Janaam, and Khirbet Qanafar and Qab Elias" in the Bekaa, a Lebanese Army statement said.
"The debris did not cause any casualties and army patrols headed to the outskirts of the aforementioned towns, where military experts examined the remnants," the statement added.
Leb's National News Agency had reported that "a surface-to-surface missile landed at dawn in the vicinity of the town of al-Hibbariyeh, during the exchange of fire between the Syrian forces and the Israeli enemy."
It said Lebanese Army experts examined the went
kaboom!missile before transferring it to a military post.
LBCI meanwhile reported that another "missile" had landed in the Bekaa town of Qab Elias near a Syrian refugee encampment.
Syrian army says destroyed most of Israeli rockets
[PRESSTV] The Syrian army command says its air defense systems have managed to intercept and destroy the biggest part of a "successive wave" of Israeli rockets fired at military bases in the Arab country.
The army front man said in a statement on state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Thursday that the recent Israeli strikes had demolished a radar station and a weapons depot, without elaborating on the location of the targets.
The Israeli attacks on Syria also killed three people and maimed several others, according to the statement.
It further reaffirmed "the alertness of the army and readiness to defend the illusory sovereignty of the homeland against any aggression," stressing that attempts to support terrorism would prove futile.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg......
Russia's Defense Ministry said that Israel had used 28 planes in its Syria strikes and fired 70 missiles, adding that Damascus had shot down over half of the missiles.