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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria reports Israeli airstrikes on suburbs of Damascus

2022-10-23

[An Nahar] Israel carried out an ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on the Syrian capital of Damascus and its southern suburbs late Friday, in the first such attack in more than a month, state media reported. There were no casualties in the strikes.

The Syrian military said later that several Israeli missiles were fired toward some military positions near Damascus. It said Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles, adding that there was only material losses.

Always, it’s most. And then the cement trucks start up again to patch the airport runways.

Residents in the capital earlier said they heard at least three explosions.

Syrian state TV said Syrian air defenses responded to "an Israeli aggression in the airspace of Damascus and southern areas."

The pro-government Sham FM radio station said the attacks were close to the Damascus International Airport south of the capital.

Friday's strikes were the first since Sept. 17, when an Israeli attack on the Damascus International Airport and nearby military posts south of the Syrian capital killed five soldiers. That attack came days after an Israeli strike shit the main airport in the northern city of Aleppo.

Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.

Israel has acknowledged, however, that it targets bases of Iran-allied krazed killer groups, such as Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
's Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's forces.

The Israeli strikes comes amid a wider shadow war between the country and Iran. The attacks on the airports in Damascus and Aleppo are over fears it was being used to funnel Iranian weaponry into the country.

Courtesy of badanov, Regnum adds:

Syrian air defense systems destroyed two cruise missiles and four guided bombs fired by the Israeli Air Force F-16 at Damascus and Dimas airports.

More from Rudaw:

"The Israeli enemy carried out air strikes from the northeastern direction of Lake Tiberias, targeting some points near Damascus," said a defence ministry statement, adding that it had intercepted most missiles.

Earlier in the evening Syria's official news agency SANA said that Syrian air defences had intercepted Israeli missiles over Damascus and the southern region.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes targeted Syrian military sites near Damascus International Airport and in the southern countryside of Damascus.

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