Israel launches strikes on targets in Syria
Source: YnetNews
The Israel Air Force launched attacks on several targets in Syrian-controlled Golan Heights late Monday night in response to a missile attack earlier in the day that killed a 13-year-old boy on the Israeli side of the border. Residents of northern Israel reported hearing explosions from across the border with Syria.
The strikes were launched shortly after midnight, when IAF jets fired missiles on Syrian army positions on the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights.
Syrian opposition sources claimed that there were 3 attacks on Syrian army positions. They said the headquarters of Syria's 90th Division, which is stationed in Quneitra, was also attacked.
Earlier in the day, the IDF responded to the killing of Israeli teen Mohammed Karaka by firing artillery rounds into outposts on Syrian territory, but later discussions raised the possibility of attacking other targets on the Syrian Golan.
Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4533314,00.html
2banon
(7,321 posts)seabeckind
(1,957 posts)Never underestimate the ability of the Israelis to take advantage of a vacuum.
Probably stake out some more land for settlements.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)Real heroes.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)"Control your kind" is the message here, I suppose.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)never claimed the Syrian army or the rebels were responsible for the attack that killed the boy.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)from Syria, ergo, launched by Syrians? Most likely, but of all Syrians the least likely perps would have been the Syrian army. It would, however, have the easiest and richest targets to retaliate against.
JI7
(89,240 posts)See post #6
former9thward
(31,936 posts)jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)I think vice made a documentary on the rebels of golan heights. The Israelis treat, shelter and arm them because they prefer the jihadists over a secular govt with Assad. They always find a reason to bomb the Syria army every time they start gaining on the rebels. Truly shameful what they are doing to Syria
pampango
(24,692 posts)Since neither Syria nor Israel has had a soldier killed by the other in the 40 years leading up to the Syrian revolution, I doubt that Israel was that unhappy with Assad whose main concern was staying in power. Assad's tanks and jets have been used against Syrians not against Israelis.
I doubt that Israeli leaders seriously think that a Syria governed by jihadists (not known for their love of Israel) would be preferable to one governed by a dictator mainly interested in his own survival.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)saying that they have treated rebels soldiers some of whom were fighting outside the FSA authority. Also there was video on liveleak a year ago showing the Syria army capturing rebels weapons with Hebrew works written on it. I will try and find some of it and post it
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)former9thward
(31,936 posts)There are many Syrian army bases there. That is what was referenced in the OP.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)former9thward
(31,936 posts)I don't believe there are rebel forces in the Golan Heights area referenced in the OP. Go ahead and repeat it again. This time bold the whole thing.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)I suspect Mohammed Karaka was not the only person harmed when Syria launched at Israel and they are now seeking to reduce the risk of more deaths.
They've been at each other for a generation or more now. Awful as it is, this will take time to resolve, or it may never be resolved.
Look at the Korean peninsula, that's only a truce. Other battles within nations and between nations take a generation or more to resolve. There is no promise of peace.
hangfire00
(27 posts)ripcord
(5,268 posts)You can expect to see more of this.
ECHOFIELDS
(25 posts)Is it plausible that the IDF was really aiming at legitimate targets in the Gaza Strip but just had another case of mistaken misdirected military attack like the one they "ACCIDENTALLY" perpetrated against the USS Liberty of 1967 infamy for which every POTUS of both stripes since LBJ have kept religiously top secretly MUM about out of deep respect for the donors of AIPAC?
former9thward
(31,936 posts)There is a sale on aluminum foil at your neighborhood store. Stock up.
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Kurska
(5,739 posts)And yes, of course Israel intentionally attacked their only ally in their darkest hour, because they are just evil jews I guess. Friendly fire never happens in war.
pampango
(24,692 posts)bombing Syrian cities?
From an October 2012 article in BBC magazine.
Pity the Syrian people. They had been given to believe that fighter jets in the arsenal of the state - those Russian-made MIGs they once viewed with pride - were there for the stand-off with Israel. Now they know better. The runs over Aleppo, the bombings of Idlib, have laid bare the truth. It is no accident that the founder of this regime, Hafez al-Assad, emerged from the ranks of the air force, which is not often an incubator of coup-makers. There would come a day, the masters of this minority regime doubtless knew, when fighter jets would be used at home.
Of the rebellions that broke out among the Arabs in the last two years, the struggle in Syria was bound to be a case apart. Think of the Tunisian dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali calling it quits and leaving with his loot, of Hosni Mubarak stepping aside after 18 magical days of protest - this Syrian rebellion's ferocity belongs to a different world of insurrections.
The Syrians must have understood the uniqueness of their situation. They took their time before they set out to challenge the entrenched regime. The first stirrings came two or three months after the other Arabs rose against their rulers. In a refugee camp on the outskirts of Antakya in Turkey, a young lawyer from Jisr al-Shughur - a Sunni town that tasted the full cruelty of the security forces - told me that he had been ready for a long war. He had left his home in the first summer of the rebellion, in 2011, but brought with him his winter clothes.
He was under no illusions about the rulers - they would fight a scorched-earth war. They were a minority, historically disdained, but all powerful. They had risen by the sword, knew no other way, and were certain that defeat on the battlefield would be the end of the world they had carved out over the last four decades.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19882416