In response to at least four rockets fired from Syria, the IDF has just announced the completion of an airstrike in Syria targeting both the Iranian Quds Force terror targets as well as air defense batteries belonging to the Syrian Armed Forces:
#BREAKING: We just carried out wide-scale strikes of Iranian Quds Force & Syrian Armed Forces targets in Syria in response to the rockets fired at Israel by an Iranian force in Syria last night.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 20, 2019
Israel states they wouldn’t have destroyed Syria’s air defense batteries, except that Syria fired on them when they were warned not to:
During our strike of Iranian & Syrian terror targets, a Syrian air defense missile was fired despite clear warnings to refrain from such fire. As a result, a number of Syrian aerial defense batteries were destroyed.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 20, 2019
We hold the Syrian regime responsible for the actions that take place in Syrian territory and warn them against allowing further attacks against Israel.
We will continue operating firmly and for as long as necessary against the Iranian entrenchment in Syria.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 20, 2019
Here’s a couple of videos of the attack I found on Twitter:
Breaking video footage emerges huge fire ripping through unknown object in southern #Damascus amid #Israeli airstrikes. pic.twitter.com/5LHaG3AHxO
— Majd Fahd 🇸🇾 (@Syria_Protector) November 19, 2019
Multiple photos and videos of Israeli airstrikes on Damascus tonight in retaliation for the firing of 4 rockets from Syria toward the occupied Golan last night. Israeli strikes appear extensive. pic.twitter.com/4arcoeaPg4
— Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) November 20, 2019
If you wonder what exactly the IDF targeted, I suggest it may have been the Iranian army base on the other side of the Syrian Border:
Images purport to show that Iran is continuing construction on an army base along the Iraq-Syria border. https://t.co/jXT8qcTArY pic.twitter.com/W6P096QAiw
— UANI (@UANI) November 19, 2019