More on the events of the 8th.
[AnNahar] Israel carried out a missile attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus and its southern suburbs early Thursday that maimed four soldiers, Syria's state media said.State news agency, SANA, quoted an unidentified military official as saying that Syrian air defenses were able to shoot down most of the missiles before they hit their targets. SANA said some of the missiles were fired by Israeli warplanes flying over neighboring Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...The strikes also caused "some material damage."
The source did not provide details on the targets.
The strikes near the capital "destroyed a weapons depot likely used by the Lebanese
Hizbullah...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
militia," among other Iran-backed groups, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"It also killed three ... Iran-backed militia fighters," said the monitor.
The Observatory said it could not determine their nationalities but that they were all non-Syrians.
Al-Manar TV of Lebanon's Hizbullah said one of the Syrian air defense missiles went
kaboom!near the Lebanon-Syria border and was heard in parts of southern Lebanon. It later said the missile crashed near the Lebanese border village of Houla.