{"id":203444,"date":"2020-03-06T08:06:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T08:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203444"},"modified":"2020-03-09T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T08:36:15","slug":"civilian-planes-used-as-cover-by-israeli-military-to-fire-missiles-at-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203444","title":{"rendered":"Civilian planes used as cover by Israeli military to fire missiles at Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Introduction \u2013 March 5, 2020<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-202122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Airbus-A320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Airbus-A320.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Airbus-A320-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>This is not the first time Israel has used civilian passenger as cover to launch missiles strikes. Last month Israeli Air Force jets struck at Syria troops<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> <a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202119\">using the flight path of an Airbus A320 from Tehran<\/a><\/span> as cover, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Hmeymim airbase in Latakia province.<\/h5>\n<h5>On Christmas Day 2018, <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=181136\">six IAF jets used the flight paths of civil airliners<\/a><\/span> to get into position before launching missile strikes into Syria.<\/h5>\n<h5>So hiding behind civilian jets now appears to be a favoured tactic used by the Israeli Air Force. In effect they are using airline passengers as human shields, which is what terrorists do when they take civilian hostages. Ed<\/h5>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Civilian planes used as cover by Israeli military to fire missiles at Syria<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">TRT World.com \u2013 March 5, 2020<\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A passenger jet and cargo jet were forced to take diversionary measures to avoid being struck by crossfire after Syrian air defence installations were activated.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Two civilian planes had to take diversionary measures after Israeli fighters jets piggybacked on their flight trajectory in a bid to attack targets in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israeli jets were<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SyrianLionesss\/status\/1235335766198439937?s=20\">reportedly<\/a><\/strong><\/span> attempting to use Israeli airspace to launch missiles targeting Syrian military installations near Homs and Quneitra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Footage on social media in the early hours of Thursday morning showed what appeared to be the light streaks of anti-aircraft batteries towards the skies targeting Israeli jets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/SyrianLionesss\/status\/1235335766198439937<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hours before Israeli jets struck Syrian territory there were reports of a potential attack. Syrian air defence installations were also activated, firing missiles at the Israeli warplanes.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NOW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NOW<\/a> <br \/>A number of explosions rocked the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Homs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Homs<\/a> moments ago.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Syria<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Israel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IDF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IDF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IAF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IAF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mf4iibBqau\">pic.twitter.com\/Mf4iibBqau<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eva J. Koulouriotis &#8211; \u0625\u064a\u0641\u0627 \u0643\u0648\u0644\u0648\u0631\u064a\u0648\u062a\u064a (@evacool_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evacool_\/status\/1235336266591465473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Following the Israeli attack, it emerged that one civilian passenger jet and one cargo jet had to make emergency manoeuvres to avoid being struck by the crossfire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to Flightradar24, an open-source flight tracking service, the flights were QR8294 travelling from Basel, Switzerland, to Doha, Qatar and passenger plane QR419 flying from Beirut, Lebanon, to Doha<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Israeli move could have potentially led to a human tragedy, similar to what happened in Iran recently with a passenger jet that the Iranian government mistook a Boeing 752 for a missile strike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2017, when Israeli fighter jets using a Russian military plane as a cover to conduct attacks in Syria it was <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/news\/middle-east\/syria\/russia-israeli-f-16-pilots-used-russian-plane-as-shield-drawing-syrian-missile-to-it\/2018\/09\/20\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>accidentally shot down by the Syrian S200 missile system<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israeli has regularly attacked Syria even before the onset of the civil war that began in 2011. Since the Assad regime has attempted to quell the rebellion to his rule with Iranian, Russian and Hezbollah backing, Israeli attacks have increased in frequency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Tel Aviv government is worried about the growing Iranian presence on its border and the supply of weapons to Hezbollah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While Israel does not publicly comment on its strikes in Syria it has attempted to take action by targetting Hezbollah, Iranian and militia activity in southern Syria. The Assad regime has confirmed some of these Israeli attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hezbollah and Iranian proxies have attempted to respond to Israeli attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When pressed in early February, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, refused to comment on an Israeli airstrike instead deflecting by suggesting that \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/news-contents\/world\/95263\/netanyahu-denies-damascus-strikes-might-have-been-belgian-air-force\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>It might have been the Belgian Air Force<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Israeli strike in Syria killed seven people, three Syrians and four Iranians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">During the Syrian war, Iran has incrementally expanded its influence in southern Syria, in particular, to put further pressure on Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In Lebanon, Hezbollah, one of Iran\u2019s most powerful proxies already has a powerful presence, however, Syria has been used by Tehran to expand the strategic depth of Iranian influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett was <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/-israel-s-goal-to-remove-iran-from-syria-within-a-year-\/1748836\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>recently quoted as saying<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: \u201cWe will remove Iran from Syria in the near future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Going on to add \u201cThey are not neighbours, they have no reason to settle next to Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/magazine\/civilian-planes-used-as-cover-by-israeli-military-to-fire-missiles-at-syria-34329\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has put air passenger at risk, launching missile strikes into Syria using the flight paths of civilian planes as cover  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203446,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203444\/revisions\/203446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}