Sourced : Middle East Eye
By Yossi Melman
According to Syrian media – government and opposition alike – the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck military targets in Syria three, probably four times in the last week. As is normal in such cases, Israel keeps silent, neither confirms nor denies.
Among the targets attacked was a Syrian military camp in Ein Kiswah, 13 kilometers south of Damascus and 40 kilometers to the Israeli border on the Golan Heights. According to Israeli sources, the camp is built to house in the future 5000 troops from Iran and or its international Shia militia.
The number of strikes and the quality of targets in one week is exceptional even in the history of Israeli military involvement in Syria. The former air force commander, Major-General Amir Eshel recently boasted in interviews with Israeli media outlets that IAF planes have attacked 100 times since the civil war broke out in Syria nearly seven years ago.
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