Israel Fires Missile at Drone from Syria, 2nd Time This Week
Israel fired a Patriot missile at an unmanned aircraft that approached the country's border from Syria for the second time this week, the military said Friday.
The defense system was fired at a Syrian drone "flying over the demilitarized zone," adding that it was "most likely intercepted," the military said.
It said the military will "operate against attempts to violate the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement, threats to Israeli sovereignty and any attempt to harm Israeli civilians."
Israeli leaders have recently reiterated that they expect Syrian President Bashar Assad and his Iranian-backed allies to honor the agreement which sets out a demilitarized zone along the frontier and limits the number of forces each side can deploy within 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the zone.
On Wednesday, a drone traveled about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) inside Israeli territory before it was shot down. That incident came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin about Syria and Iran. Russia has been a key ally of the Syrian government in its civil war. Israel's main concern is keeping archenemy Iran, an Assad ally, as far away from its border as possible — along with its ally Lebanon's Hizbullah.
The Israeli military targeted Syrian military positions Thursday in response.
Last month, Israel fired a missile at a drone that approached its airspace near the Syrian frontier, and in February it shot down what it said was an Iranian drone that entered its airspace. It bombed Iranian targets in Syria in response.
13 July 2018, 18:44
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Thank you southern for being patriotic and for posting as such.
I have had my doubts over the last 40 years about our ability to liberate the Golan Heights due to inactivity on part of our axis of resistance.
But having read your words I feel reassured once again and look forward to that glorious day when you and I can have a shawarma sandwich at Barbar's branch in the Golan Heights.
Keep Posting, the World is Listening.
13 July 2018, 22:03
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southern irani, why are you anti jewish?
your president Rouhani states it was the iranians who saved the jews?
قال الرئيس الإيراني حسن روحاني اثناء زيارته إلى دولة النمسا في أوروبا: “اليهود مدينون لنا فنحن من أنقذ اليهود في بابل، وهم كانوا ومازالوا مَدينون لإيران وللإيرانيين، ولدينا علاقات جيدة وقوية مع كل اليهود في العالم”.
لماذا أنقذهم كورش ملك العجم الفرس الذي يفتخر به الرئيس حسن روحاني؟
http://janoubia.com/2018/07/09/خامنئي-يستنجد-باليهود-لحماية-عرشه؟/
13 July 2018, 23:14
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s.os did you not claim that ISrael and Assad was working together? And now you say they should go into Syria to defend against Assad.
Make up your mind fool.
14 July 2018, 19:56
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Yes the Peace treaty Sadat signed with Israel getting Sinai desert back in return, when he betrayed Hafez Al Assad.
Even though Hafez Al Assad got a simmilar offer from Israel to get back the Golan Heights in return of peace.
Hafez Al Assad rejected the offer.
14 July 2018, 19:57
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It is you whom always uses the Sunni card, I am clearly stating that if you are so proud of being Arab and Sunni, then how come you never lift a finger for the Arab sunnis in Palestine?
Why are you always cowards infront of Israel, that is the big question here.
13 July 2018, 23:20
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Netanyahu: Israel Has No Problem With Assad
We haven't had a problem with the Assad regime, for 40 years not a single bullet was fired on the Golan Heights,' the prime minister says before taking off from Moscow
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-israel-has-no-problem-with-assad-agreements-must-be-upheld-1.6268158
15 July 2018, 13:13
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s.o.s 21 hours ago 01
"But then, Israel has its own moral limits, we see how they treat the Palestinians, why would they treat Syrians in any better way unless it benefits them."
Can we do a little maths over the years - How many Palestinian terrorists were killed in Jordan in Black September, how many in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, How many in the civil war in Syria, how many by ISIS in Iraq? Now tell me how many Palestinian terrorists have been killed by Israel? In case you don't know ask Abu Mazen, his Palestinian Authority pays their families a monthly salary.
