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Israel acknowledges Syria air raid
    2019-01-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Sunday Israel’s weekend attack on what he called an Iranian arms cache in Syria, and said it had also completed a hunt for cross-border tunnels dug by Tehran-allied Lebanese Hezbollah fighters.

Long wary of publicity around its operations against Iran-linked targets on its northern front, Israel has lifted the veil in recent days -- a sign of confidence in a campaign waged amid occasional tensions with Syria’s big-power backer, Russia.

Netanyahu may also be playing up his security credentials as he seeks re-election April 9. That possibility appeared reinforced by figures he gave Sunday that went beyond more measured information previously provided by other officials.

“We have been taking action with impressive success to arrest Iran’s military entrenchment in Syria,” Netanyahu told his Cabinet in televised remarks. He said this entailed “hundreds” of attacks over the past several years of Syria’s civil war, in which Iran and Hezbollah have backed Damascus against rebels and Islamist insurgents.

Last week, an observer in Netanyahu’s security Cabinet, Tzachi Hanegbi, told a local TV station there had been “more than 220” Israeli operations against Iranian targets in Syria.

Confirming a Friday night sortie in Syria, Netanyahu said Israel’s air force had “struck Iran’s warehouses, containing Iranian arms, in Damascus international airport.”

Syrian state media said at the time of the attack that the damage was limited to a hit on a warehouse at Damascus airport.

Netanyahu also cited “the successful completion” of an Israeli search-and-dismantle mission against suspected Hezbollah attack tunnels from Lebanon that was launched in December.

The Israeli military said a sixth and final tunnel was found Saturday, 55 meters deep and reaching “a few tens of meters” into Israel from 800 meters within Lebanon.

Hezbollah has not commented on the tunnels, the existence of several of which was confirmed by U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon. Israel and Hezbollah last fought a war in 2006. (SD-Agencies)

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