{"id":244811,"date":"2021-10-31T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T07:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244811"},"modified":"2021-11-01T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T08:04:56","slug":"syria-says-air-defenses-repelled-daytime-israeli-aggression-on-damascus-countryside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244811","title":{"rendered":"Syria says air defenses repelled daytime Israeli aggression on Damascus countryside"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Oct 30, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The Syrian military says the country\u2019s air defenses have in a rare daytime strike intercepted missiles fired from the direction of the Israeli-occupied territories at Damascus countryside. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Citing a military source, Syria&#8217;s official news agency SANA said Saturday that the Israeli regime launched missiles from the northern side of occupied Palestine and targeted some points in Damascus countryside around 11 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>The source said that the country\u2019s air defense systems were activated against \u201chostile targets from the direction of occupied lands,\u201d and a number of the missiles were \u201crepelled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The source also said the aggression injured two soldiers and caused some material damages.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian state television had earlier reported of explosions heard in the countryside surrounding the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The latest attack came just a few days after the Syrian media said Israeli helicopters had hit three targets on the outskirts of the town of al-Baath as well as other locations in southern Syria.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very rare the Israeli army carries out airstrikes in Syria by daylight; Damascus area, after a lack of IAF activity recently. Reports indicate the main target is weapons delivery to Lebanon. The possible killing of \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfe soldiers is going against the deal between Israel and Moscow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PK6jSU9EjM\">pic.twitter.com\/PK6jSU9EjM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ruslan Trad (@ruslantrad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ruslantrad\/status\/1454406533714960394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Two of the sites targeted on Monday were observation posts reportedly used by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, while the third target was a site next to a Syrian military facility. The strikes caused \u201cmaterial damage,\u201d but there was no immediate word on casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Israel frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those for Hezbollah, which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against the foreign-backed terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>The Tel Aviv regime mostly keeps quiet about its attacks on Syrian territories, which many view as knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government\u2019s increasing success in confronting terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been a main supporter of terrorist groups that have opposed the government of President Bashar al-Assad since foreign-backed militancy erupted in Syria nine years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2021\/10\/30\/669556\/Syrian-military-SANA-missile-Israel-Damascus\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Syrians are becoming increasingly adept at intercepting Israeli air strikes. <\/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-244811","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\/244811","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=244811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244812,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244811\/revisions\/244812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}