Introduction – Dec 28, 2021
A video of Latakia Port during the IAF air strike tonight
pic.twitter.com/RgIUuo1lbh— Intel Air & Sea (@air_intel) December 28, 2021
The video footage above is impressive enough but by daylight it was clear that the Israeli Air Force hadn’t hit a munitions storage facility, as the following Reuter’s report suggests.
A container yard at Latakia Port still smoulders after an Israeli air strike the night before. Click to enlarge
Instead, Israel appears to have struck a freight handing yard with containers full of consumer goods.
This was the second time this month that Israel struck the main port of Latakia. So even if Iran had been using the port as a transit point for weapons, the first raid served as a warning and it opted to use an alternative supply route.
A close examination of photos of the targeted facility by daylight tends to reinforce Syrian claims that consumer goods were passing through the freight yard, not military hardware for Iran’s allies. For if it was being used as a transit point for weapons and munitions, as Israel claims, there would be much tighter security. Ed
Israel hits Syrian port for second time this month – Syrian army
Reuters – Dec 28, 2021
Israel launched an air strike on Syria’s main port of Latakia on Tuesday in the second such attack this month, the Syrian army said, setting ablaze the container storage area where two port sources said Iran has been storing munitions.
An Israeli military spokesperson declined to comment saying: “We don’t comment on foreign reports.”
Official Syrian reports made no mention of any casualties. A source familiar with the operations of the port said the strike hit a container area where large consignments of Iranian munitions that had arrived last month were stored.
“These blasts and huge fires were caused by the explosions from the munitions stored in a warehouse close to commercial cargo,” the source who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter told Reuters.
Syrian state news agency SANA quoted the head of the Latakia fire brigade as saying the containers targeted in the strike contained oils and spare parts for machines and cars.
Israel has mounted frequent attacks against what it says are Iranian targets in Syria, where Tehran-backed forces led by Lebanon’s Hezbollah have deployed over the last decade in support of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s civil war.
Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz, visiting an Israeli air-force base did not speak about the specific incident on Tuesday but warned his country would not allow Iran to use Syria to threaten Israel.
“I call upon the region’s countries to stop Iran from violating their sovereignty and people. Israel will not allow Iran to funnel balance-breaching weapons to its proxies and threaten our citizens,” Gantz said.
Another Syrian source familiar with Iranian military movements in Syria said Tehran had in recent months transferred weapons by sea as it sought to dodge intensified Israeli strikes that struck eastern Syria near a weapons supply corridor along the border with Iraq.
The drone strikes disabled several large weapons convoys sent by Tehran from Iraq, he added in information confirmed by a Western intelligence source.
Iran has expanded its military presence in Syria in recent years where it now has a foothold in most state-controlled areas where thousands of its militias and local paramilitary groups are under its command, Western intelligence sources say.
Citing a military source, SANA said Israel had carried out the air strike targeting the container storage area at 3.21 a.m. (0121 GMT), causing a fire and leading to “big material damages”.
Fire fighters were working to extinguish the blaze, it quoted the head of the Latakia fire brigade as saying. Syrian state TV footage showed flames and smoke in the container area.
Citing its correspondent, state-run broadcaster al-Ikhbariya said a number of residential buildings, a hospital and a number of shops and tourist facilities had been damaged by the power of the blasts.
Russia, which has been Assad’s most powerful ally during the war, operates an air base at Hmeimim some 20 kms (12 miles) away from Latakia.
Reporting by Yasmin Hussein and Alaa Swilam in Cairo and Jeffrey Heller and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem and Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman; Writing by Alaa Swilam/ Tom Perry/ Suleiman al Khalidi; Editing by Michael Perry, Gareth Jones and Emelia Sithole-Matarise
The jews are desperate to get syria to retaliate then they can send in thecamerican numpties to fight for them
while they sit back in their stolen homes on stolen land with stolen money
So b/c 6 million rabbis were turned into Jew smoothies ( after being gassed by shower heads & masturbated to death ) these people can bomb anyone whenever they want?
Press tv reported a couple of days ago that 250 Palestinians were injured in the West-bank for demonstrating their disgust for being occupied.
ZOGs and ZOG media are reporting none of it.
I haven’t turned my tv on in nearly three weeks, but I do tune in to state radio for the hourly bulletins.
It’s all COVID shite.
I’m going to have to telephone and tell them what I really think…
imagine that you have such an
uncalculable neighbour !
ISRAEL an hostile extraterrestical
entety for whole human kind !
Remember the Beirut grain silo that got nuked? Remember they said it was caused by ammonium nitrate that went unstable and blew up?
Do you believe that bullshit now?
Who blew up the biggest grain silo on the eastern mediteraneum? Israel.
Whenever anything blows up your first thought should be Israel.
USS Liberty shot full of holes. Israel
World Trade Center collapse. Israel
Beirut grain silo. Israel
Mushroom cloud within fuel range of F-16 stationed at an Israeli airbase. Israel
It is always Israel, Israel is always the guilty party even when Amerika does it.
Excellent from Yukon again. I can only applaud.
So Syria’s air defense systems are ineffective or they’re not being used for some reason? And there’s no retaliation by Syria or its allies? And Putin doesn’t mind the constant air attacks on Syria by jews? What a pathetic situation.
Why Syria doesn’t retaliate back against Israel sends a clear message that Israel can attack time & time again.
Assad is weak. At least his father had Balls.
Israel needs to face real adversary.
Only then can it be determined if it’s capable.
These Sly attacks whilst the world sleeps is the very definition of being a coward.
Just goes to Show Russia is no friend of Syria.
Those S-500 aren’t even switched on or are programmed not to fire at Israel.
Hezbollah are the only fighting unit that has inflicted real damage on Israel.
If Hezbollah only had a Army.
Russia has a Port in Latakia. Russia is a useless as Tits on a Bull.
Putin Should have responded by Bombing Tel Aviv.
But he won’t because Putin is a Western Puppet. A useless Western Puppet. The Communist in Russia wouldn’t have stood for this humiliation.
Israel is the centre of world errorism
we all need to join the boycott of jewish goods and supermarkets
hit them where it hurts
unless we fight back israel will as promised clear the whole middle east and send them over to us
a massive house building project is already under way in the UK to prepare for when the USA bombs iran and we get the refugees pushed over to us