{"id":29960,"date":"2019-01-21T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29960"},"modified":"2019-01-21T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T01:23:45","slug":"syrian-air-defences-shoot-down-hostile-targets-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29960","title":{"rendered":"Syrian air defences  shoot down &#8216;hostile targets&#8217;: state media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"85.6717557252\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Israeli military says it is carrying out overnight strikes on Iranian targets in Syria, while the Syrian Arab News State Agency or SANA is reporting that the country&#8217;s air defences have shot down &#8220;hostile targets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;We have started striking Iranian Quds targets in Syrian territory. We warn the Syrian Armed Forces against attempting to harm Israeli forces or territory,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s military said in a statement in the early hours of Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Quds Force is in charge of Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards&#8217; overseas operations. Iran is a major backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his forces in the country&#8217;s long-running war.<\/p>\n<p>News agency reports quoted witnesses in the Syrian capital, Damascus, as saying that loud explosions rang out in the night sky.<\/p>\n<p>The attack followed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/syrian-air-defence-repels-israeli-attack-south-state-media-190120112642780.html\">cross-border attacks<\/a> on Sunday in which Syria said it repelled an Israeli air attack.<\/p>\n<p>Israel said it intercepted a rocket fired at the occupied Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a permanent policy, to strike at the Iranian entrenchment in Syria and hurt whoever tries to hurt us,&#8221; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army also said a popular winter tourist site on Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights would be shut for the day. It added that otherwise things remained &#8220;routine&#8221; along the frontier with Syria.<\/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>The Israeli military says it is carrying out overnight strikes on Iranian targets in Syria, while the Syrian Arab News State Agency or SANA is reporting that the country&#8217;s air defences have shot down &#8220;hostile targets&#8221;. &#8220;We have started striking Iranian Quds targets in Syrian territory. We warn the Syrian Armed Forces against attempting to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29960","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\/29960","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=29960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}