{"id":28942,"date":"2019-01-13T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28942"},"modified":"2019-01-13T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T11:22:49","slug":"netanyahu-confirms-weekend-strike-on-iranian-weapons-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28942","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu confirms weekend strike on &#8216;Iranian weapons&#8217; in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"86.394437421\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/benjamin-netanyahu.html\">Benjamin\u00a0Netanyahu<\/a>\u00a0has said that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/israel.html\">Israel\u00a0<\/a>carried out an air\u00a0raid on Iranian weapons in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/syria.html\">Syria<\/a>\u00a0over\u00a0<span>the weekend<\/span>, a rare public confirmation of such attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Just in the last 36 hours the air force attacked Iranian warehouses containing Iranian weapons in the Damascus international airport,&#8221;\u00a0Netanyahu\u00a0said on Sunday at the start of a cabinet meeting, according to his office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The accumulation of recent attacks shows that we&#8217;re more determined than ever to act against Iran in Syria, just as we promised,&#8221; the prime minister&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian state media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/israel-fires-missiles-damascus-airport-syria-state-media-190112061043686.html\">reported<\/a> on Sunday that Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles towards Damascus, with one striking a warehouse at the airport. The raids triggered Syrian air defence to shoot down most of them.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian state media broadcast footage of what it said was the air defence&#8217;s firing, with bright lights seen shooting across the night sky. Explosions were heard in one of the videos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/180510045201451\">Israel has mounted attacks in Syria<\/a>\u00a0as part of its efforts to counter the influence created by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iran.html\">Iran,<\/a>\u00a0which is supporting President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/bashar-al-assad.html\">Bashar al-Assad<\/a>\u00a0in the war that erupted in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Many of them have been in the area south of Damascus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has vowed not to let Tehran entrench itself militarily in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>The last Israeli attack reported by the state media was on December 25, when a missile attack wounded three Syrian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Israeli official said in September Israel had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/israel-launched-200-strikes-syria-2017-180905063755959.html\">carried out more than 200 attacks<\/a> against Iranian targets in Syria in the last two years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Benjamin\u00a0Netanyahu\u00a0has said that\u00a0Israel\u00a0carried out an air\u00a0raid on Iranian weapons in Syria\u00a0over\u00a0the weekend, a rare public confirmation of such attacks. &#8220;Just in the last 36 hours the air force attacked Iranian warehouses containing Iranian weapons in the Damascus international airport,&#8221;\u00a0Netanyahu\u00a0said on Sunday at the start of a cabinet meeting, according to his office. &#8220;The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}