It was reported yesterday and confirmed shortly thereafter that Israel bombed a suspected shipment of antiaircraft missiles in Syria. Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah condemned what they called an Israeli attack which it said targeted a Syrian research center.
Russia condemned the unprovoked attack by Israel.
The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria.
The early-morning strike in a border area west of Damascus targeted a
convoy of trucks carrying Russian-made SA-17 missiles to Hezbollah, the
anti-Israel Shiite militant and political group in Lebanon, according to
a Western official briefed on the raid. ...
In addition to taking out weapons that could be used by Hezbollah against Israeli warplanes in a future conflict, Israel sent what amounted to a message of warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iran against attempting to transfer any chemical or biological weapons to Hezbollah, U.S. and Western officials said. The use of such weapons has been singled out by President Barack Obama as a "red line" that could trigger a U.S. intervention.
Syria maintained that the accounts of a strike on an arms convoy near the country's border with Lebanon were wrong. Instead, Syria's military said, Israeli jets had attacked a military facility near Damascus. (continue at Wall Street Journal)
Iran threatens serious consequences.
The Iranian regime's English language mouthpiece, Press TV, quoted a
deputy foreign minister as saying that the "strike on Syria will have
serious consequences for Tel Aviv." The official did not elaborate. (more at Jerusalem Post)
The useless anti-Israel United Nations:
The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria.
The recommendation came in a report issued Thursday by the U.N. Human
Rights Council, which has a history of passing numerous biased
resolutions condemning Israel for various alleged ‘crimes’ each year.
"Israel must, in compliance with Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, cease all settlement activities without preconditions," the report said in part. "It must immediately initiate a process of withdrawal of all settlers from the occupied Palestinian territories."
Israel’s Foreign Ministry responded in a fiery statement immediately to the report, which claimed that Jewish settlement activity only “hampers peace efforts.”
In response, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, “The Human Rights Council has sadly distinguished itself by its systemically one-sided and biased approach towards Israel.
“This latest report is yet another reminder of that,” he added.
At least half a million Israelis live in Judea, Samaria and areas of
Jerusalem restored to the capital during the 1967 Six Day War. (YNET)
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