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Israel launches air raids on Syria
    2020-08-05  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

ISRAELI helicopters fired missiles on Syrian military positions in the southern province of Quneitra on Monday, said Israel’s military and Syrian state news agency SANA, describing the strikes as retaliation for an attempted bombing of the border fence by an enemy squad.

The airstrikes were carried out by Israeli fighter jets, attack helicopters and aircraft against targets belonging to the Syrian army, the Israeli military said in a separate statement Monday night.

“The targets struck include observation posts and intelligence collection systems, anti-aircraft artillery facilities and command and control systems in Syrian Armed Forces bases,” the statement read.

According to the report by SANA, the Israeli choppers attacked some posts of the Syrian army on the frontier between Quneitra and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, causing damage only.

Tensions have been on the rise along Israel’s borders with Lebanon and Syria after a fighter with Hezbollah, a Lebanese Iran-backed armed group, was killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike in Syria in July.

The Israeli military said it was responding to an attempt by a group of four people to plant explosives on a patrolled fence along the Golan armistice line between Israel and Syria.

In that incident, reported by Israel early Monday, the military fired on the squad. Surveillance video showed the group engulfed in an explosion. An Israeli military spokesman referred to them as “former terrorists,” suggesting they had been killed.

The military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, said it was too soon to say if the squad belonged to any organization, but that Israel held “the Syrian regime accountable.” (CGTN)

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