NIKK..Reporting from a Syrian/Arab perspective.
Just before midnight on Friday, Syria’s air defense forces responded to an Israeli missile attack against locations south of Damascus city. Detonations linked to the engagement were heard across the region.
The scale of the attack seems to have been involved around a dozen or less Israeli missiles that targeted the southern Damascus region, seemingly near the international airport which is often attacked by Israel.
Earlier reports that Mezzah Airbase (another strategic location often targeted by Israel) had come under attack seem to not be true, however it is believed that Syrian air defense units based at Mezzah were part of the responding forces (this can often lead to confusion that the site was struck). It was reported that Syrian air defenses responded to the Israeli air attack with at least eight missiles. Syria’s SANA news network has stated in its latest official communiques that the attack was thwarted with “most” missiles being intercepted before reaching their targets.
In a very rare move, official Israeli sources have admitted to Israel conducting the attack. These same sources confirm the missile barrage targeted a site south of Damascus.
20h...Breaking | Syrian Air Defenses Response israeli Missiles Over Damascus City.
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Israel's media posts 2018 video as 'evidence' of recent Syria strike.
NIKK..translated....Israel’s media has released a video which it claims as proof that it struck Iranian targets south of Damascus city in Syria on Saturday night – problem is, the video is from 2018, not 18 hours ago.
The video in question has been spread across Israeli Twitter accounts, including official accounts of Israeli politicians and political commentators, as ‘evidence’ of a successful strike against allegedly Iranian targets in Syria.
In reality, the video shown below is from an an Israeli strike that attacked a Syrian military site located in Damascus well over a year ago in 2018, not an Iranian site in Syria less than a day ago.
POSTED by (Aran Residence شمعون آران Verified account @simonarann Political Reporter - News in Arabic Broadcasting Corporation - From here / Voice of Israel Political & diplomatic correspondent arabic news @ مكان مراسل) ....On Saturday, must before midnight, Israel conducted a missile attack that hit southern Damascus. Syrian state media claims that most of the missiles were stopped. There are reports that of 8 missiles fired, six were intercepted by Syria air defense units – this suggesting that two got through to their targets.
Although Israel rarely admits to the many attacks it conducts in Syria, it almost always blames Iranian forces when it does; and then so, when Israeli media shows legitimate video evidence of a strike in Syria, it is almost always a Syrian military target being attacked – in particular air defense units.
Many believe that Israel’s so-called secret war against Iran in Syria is in fact just a war against the Syrian Army in Syria – something which Israel can rarely admit to doing unless it creates a defensive pretext.
צה"ל פרס סוללות כיפות ברזל בצפון במסגרת ההיערכות לתגובה איראנית על תקיפת כוחות קודס הלילה בסוריה. pic.twitter.com/stR9dBdCOt— שמעון ארן شمعون آران (@simonarann) August 24, 2019
