Tue Jan 9, 2018 08:45AM
Syria’s army says its air defense systems have hit an
Israeli aircraft and intercepted a number of rockets fired at targets on Syrian
soil as the Tel Aviv regime continues its acts of aggression against the Arab
country.
In a statement carried by state media on Tuesday, the
army said that Israeli jets had fired missiles at the al-Qutaifa area northeast
of the capital, Damascus, from inside the Lebanese airspace at 2:40 a.m. (0040
GMT).
The target of the strike in al-Qutaifa was said to be a
weapons depot.
According to the statement, Israel then fired
ground-to-ground rockets from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, but the
Syrian defenses brought the missiles down.
It said that Israeli jets had fired a final barrage of
four rockets from inside Israel, and that the Syrian air defenses brought down
one, but that the others caused material damage.
Syria’s official news agency (SANA) cited the general
command of the army as saying that the attack had been carried out to raise the
morale of the “defeated” terrorists in the Arab country.
“This flagrant aggression reaffirms Israel’s support for
the armed terrorist groups in Syria and its desperate attempts to lift its
morale,” the statement read.
The Israeli military did not comment on the reports.
During the past few years, Israel has frequently attacked
military targets in Syria in what is considered as an attempt to prop up
terrorist groups that have been suffering defeats in their fight against Syrian
government forces.
Back in April 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu officially admitted for the first time that the regime's military had
conducted strikes in Syrian territory.
Damascus says Israel and its Western and regional allies
are aiding Takfiri terrorist groups operating inside the Arab country, while
the Tel Aviv regime's military carries out such sporadic strikes against Syrian
government forces. The Israeli regime has even set up field hospitals to treat
wounded militants evacuated from Syria.
Moreover, the Syrian army has repeatedly seized huge
quantities of Israeli-made weapons and advanced military equipment from
militant groups inside Syria.
Original post: presstv.com
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