The Israeli army claimed, Wednesday morning, November 18, to have struck Iranian and Syrian targets in Syria. “What Iran and Syria did: They put improvised explosive devices near the Alpha line [le long de la frontière nord de l’Etat hébreu] to hit Israeli troops. What we did: we just hit targets of the Iranian Quds Force and the Syrian armed forces in Syria ”, wrote the Israeli army on Twitter. The Quds Force is an elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards responsible for foreign operations.
What Iran & Syria did: placed improvised explosive devices by the Alpha Line to hit Israeli troops. What we did:… https://t.co/iHBROZEOwF
Israel said it hit “Storage facilities, headquarters and military complexes”. “Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries were hit”, is it added in a press release.
Quoting a “Military source”, the Sana agency evokes a “Aerial assault” conducted by “The Zionist enemy” against “The southern region”. “The aggression killed three soldiers and injured a soldier, causing material damage”, adds Sana.
A claim in the event of retaliation
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes and missiles on Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011, targeting Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces deployed in Syrian territory as well as government troops.
The Jewish state rarely recognizes individual strikes, but it does when it says it is responding to specific attacks on Israeli territory.
