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Israel Destroys Syrian Airstrips

Doug Watt
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Israel Defense Forces destroyed the landing strips of the two major airports in Syria. This is not the first time the IDF has put the Damascus and Aleppo airports out of service. The IDF has also attacked Iranian arms depots located outside the Damascus Airport in the recent past.

The IDF conducted airstrikes on the Damascus and Aleppo international airports on October 12, disrupting critical nodes through which Iran funnels military equipment and personnel into the Levant. The IDF struck the airport runways. The Syrian Arab Army conducted a mortar strike into the Golan Heights after the attacks, possibly as symbolic retaliation. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has long used commercial airliners affiliated with the Iranian regime for military transports to Syria throughout the civil war there. A Mahan Air flight was en route from Tehran to Damascus around the time of the IDF airstrikes and then changed course back to Iran. The United States has sanctioned Mahan Air for transporting military personnel and materiel on behalf of the IRGC Quds Force to Syria to support the Iranians' efforts to defend the Bashar al Assad regime and entrench the Iranian military influence around the Levant.

IDF Special Forces in action.

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  • kedavis@kedavis

    That's probably the video I saw before and mentioned on another post. But I was assured there weren't 250 hostages taken to start with and therefore the video must be fake or something.

  • Doug Watt@DougWatt
    Replyingtokedavis

    kedavis (View Comment):

    That’s probably the video I saw before and mentioned on another post. But I was assured there weren’t 250 hostages taken to start with and therefore the video must be fake or something.

    It was an Israeli military outpost outside of Gaza, not in Gaza. These were hostages being held in Israel not the hostages taken to Gaza. Gotta do the research my friend.

  • Doug Watt@DougWatt

    "An elite special forces group in Israel launched a rescue mission that resulted in the recapture of an Israeli military post in southern Israel, according to video footage released by the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday."

    "That group of specially trained commandos was part of Israel's Shayetet 13 fleet and was responsible for killing at least 60 Hamas soldiers and saving 250 hostages during the operation." - from the Washington Examiner

  • kedavis@kedavis
    ReplyingtoDoug Watt

    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    “An elite special forces group in Israel launched a rescue mission that resulted in the recapture of an Israeli military post in southern Israel, according to video footage released by the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday.”

    “That group of specially trained commandos was part of Israel’s Shayetet 13 fleet and was responsible for killing at least 60 Hamas soldiers and saving 250 hostages during the operation.” – from the Washington Examiner

    Maybe it's too picky, but given the description above, they probably should have been referred to as prisoners, not hostages.

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