{"id":228728,"date":"2021-03-01T08:23:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228728"},"modified":"2021-03-03T05:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:17:30","slug":"syrian-air-defenses-intercept-israeli-missiles-targeting-damascus-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228728","title":{"rendered":"Syrian air defenses intercept Israeli missiles targeting Damascus suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Feb 28, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Syrian military says the country\u2019s air defenses have intercepted Israeli missiles coming from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Syria\u2019s official news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying that the Israeli missiles were fired hours before midnight on Sunday at targets in the vicinity of the Syrian capital Damascus.<\/p>\n

The source said almost all of the missiles were successfully intercepted by the Syrian air defenses.<\/p>\n

Israeli media claim the airstrike was a response to a recent attack on an Israeli-owned vessel in the Gulf of Oman, which Tel Aviv blames on Iran.<\/p>\n

Israel frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those affiliated with the resistance movement,\u00a0which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists since 2011.<\/p>\n

The Tel Aviv regime mostly keeps quiet about the attacks on Syrian territories which many view as knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government\u2019s increasing success in confronting terrorism in country.<\/p>\n

Early last month, Israeli air-to-surface and surface-to-surface missiles were intercepted by the Syrian air defense systems over the country’s southwestern province of\u00a0Quneitra.<\/p>\n

In early January, a similar attack was carried out by Israel on the southwestern town of al-Zabadani in the Rif Dimashq governorate, which claimed the life of a Syrian soldier and injured three others.<\/p>\n

In mid-January, the city of Dayr al-Zawr and the town of al-Bukamal were targeted by Israeli airstrikes, which were carried out with intelligence provided by the US, according to a US official.<\/p>\n

The Syrian government wrote to the UN in January to protest another attack that killed four members of a family near the western city of Hama.<\/p>\n

The letter\u00a0by the Syrian Foreign Ministry\u00a0said Damascus reserves the right to defend the country\u2019s sovereignty and civilians against such acts of aggression.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

Israeli Ship “Explosion” Day after US Strikes in Syria . . . Iranian Navy MISSILES Determined to have hit Israeli Ship<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n