ISRAEL LAUNCHES 500 AIRSTRIKES ON SYRIAN MILITARY SITES
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Israel has begun airstrikes at military targets throughout Syria and sent ground forces into and beyond a demilitarised buffer zone for the first time in fifty years in retaliation for the fall of the Assad regime.
The Israeli military says it has struck about 480 military sites across Syria, destroying most of the country’s “strategic weapons stockpiles” over the past 48 hours, while Defense Minister, Israel Katz, said the Israeli navy had destroyed the Syrian fleet overnight, hailing the operation as “a great success.”
The Israel Defence soldiers posted video of its soldiers hitting what it claimed were the naval ports of Latakia and al-Bayda, where 15 Syrian ships were parked, in a Telegram update Friday night.
Airfields, weapons manufacturing facilities, and anti-aircraft batteries in Damascus, Homs, Tartus, Latakia, and Palmyra were also reportedly hit.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted that the goal of the war on Syria is to prevent Islamists from obtaining weapons that the Assad government uses.
“We have no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of Syria,” he said in a video statement, “but we certainly do intend to do what is necessary to ensure our security.
Fighting continues in northern Syria between pro-Turkish, Kurdish factions
Two paramedics were killed, the SDF said, when their ambulance was struck by a drone. A woman was killed when the vehicle she was traveling in was hit.
The SDF claimed Turkish warplanes and drones were “flying intensively in the airspace in Kobani, Manbij,” and other areas.“Further south in the city of Raqqa, there had been two drone strikes, the SDF said. Social media video showed a plume of smoke rising in one location in Raqqa. Turkish military and intelligence declined to comment on the strikes. Turkish-backed factions in northern Syria also possess attack drones but have not commented on the situation in Raqqa.
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