{"id":206346,"date":"2020-04-27T07:47:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206346"},"modified":"2020-04-29T05:28:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T05:28:17","slug":"syria-says-it-intercepted-israeli-missiles-over-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206346","title":{"rendered":"Syria Says It Intercepted Israeli Missiles Over Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Haaretz \u2013 April 27, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018Hostile targets\u2019 coming from Lebanese airspace were reportedly shot down \u25a0 There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168903\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Missiles-over-Damascus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168903\" class=\"wp-image-168903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Missiles-over-Damascus-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An earlier Israeli missile strike is intercepted over Damascus. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon fired missiles toward areas near Damascus early on Monday, the Syrian military said, claiming the country\u2019s air defenses shot most of them down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The military said in a statement, which was carried by state media, that some of the missiles that made it to the target near the Syrian capital caused material damage but did not inflict any casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Syrian air defense active over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Damascus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Damascus<\/a> tonight against reported <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Israel<\/a>|i airstrikes. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Syria<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JZt3YcFAlT\">pic.twitter.com\/JZt3YcFAlT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Truzman (@Jtruzmah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jtruzmah\/status\/1254597015482167297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 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;\">According to the statement, the attack took place around dawn. The Syrian military gave no further details about the attack or what it targeted specifically. Syrian state TV said the attacks occurred near Damascus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel rarely confirms attacks and it did not comment on the latest missiles strike. Israel has said, however, that it has been behind a series of airstrikes mainly targeting Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces in Syria that are alongside Syrian government forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel has also in the past used Lebanon\u2019s airspace to launch attacks on Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last week, an opposition war monitor said that an alleged Israeli airstrike in central Syria\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/syria\/alleged-israeli-strike-near-syria-s-palmyra-kills-9-fighters-watchdog-says-1.8787216\">killed nine fighters<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, including six who were not Syrians and some who were loyal to the militant Hezbollah group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave no nationalities for the foreigners who were killed on a military post in the desert near the historic central town of\u00a0Palmyra. It said the dead included some fighters loyal to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/misc\/tags\/TAG-hezbollah-1.5598890\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Hezbollah<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel says it has been behind a series of airstrikes mainly targeting Iranian and Hezbollah forces in Syria that have joined the country\u2019s war fighting alongside the government. It rarely confirms the attacks and did not comment on Monday&#8217;s airstrike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/syrian-air-defenses-intercept-israeli-aggression-over-damascus-report-says-1.8801388\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missiles fired from Israeli jets over Lebanon intercepted by Syrian air defences near Damascus <\/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-206346","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\/206346","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=206346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206349,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206346\/revisions\/206349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}