Israel Targeted Iranian Weapons Transferred To Syria

Israel Targeted Iranian Weapons

Transferred To Syria

YNET.com has this story out today and it starts off like this... CNN says incident in which Israeli planes reportedly invaded Syrian airspace was actually an attack on Iranian weapons transferred to Syria... operation apparently included ground forces, report says...
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>>> IsraelNationalNews.com has this take... Israeli TV Channel 1 said Tuesday that the IDF "definitely carried out an attack" against Syria last Thursday. The attack was meaningful, the channel's military affairs reporter said, and was probably carried out against a large and important target that justified taking this kind of extreme action at such a sensitive time in Israeli-Syrian relations... The target hit was in the Deir Ez-Zour region in eastern Syria, near the Euphrates River...
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Israeli Media Confirms IAF Struck Near Euphrates

>>> The New York Times website put this report out... After days of silence from the Israeli government, American officials confirmed Tuesday that Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes inside Syria last week, the first such attack since 2003... A Defense Department official said Israeli jets had struck at least one target in northeastern Syria last Thursday, but the official said it was still unclear exactly what the jets hit and the extent of the bombing damage...
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U.S. Confirms Israeli Strikes Hit Syrian Target Last Week

>>> BBC.co.uk website reports it this way... Israeli jets carried out an air strike in Syria last week, a US defence official has said. The official, who spoke anonymously, said he did not know the target of the alleged strike on Thursday...But he said he believed it was a warning to Syria not to re-arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, the AFP news agency reported... Damascus said it fired on Israeli jets after they entered northern Syria. Israel has not commented on the claims...
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US says Israel jets struck Syria

>>> CNN.com... Syria accused Israel of a "flagrant violation" of its obligations when it carried out an airstrike inside the country last week, according to a copy of a letter released Tuesday... Syria called the incursion a "breach of airspace of the Syrian Arab Republic" and said "it is not the first time Israel has violated" Syrian airspace, the letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon read... It also accused the international community of ignoring Israeli actions.
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Syria complains to U.N. about Israeli airstrike .

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