Syria: Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Hit Ex-Regime’s Naval Base, Weapons Depots
Times of Israel: “Latest raids said to hit sites including air defense units and surface-to-surface missile depots.”
Nearly a week after the Bashar al-Assad regime’s collapse, the Israeli military reportedly kept up the strategic bombing of Syria’s military assets.
In an overnight raid, Israeli fighter jets struck the Syrian port city of Tartus, home to the former regime’s strategic military arsenal and a Russian naval base, the Israeli media reported Monday morning. After the fall of the Assad regime, Russia has shown no sign of vacating the Mediterranean naval base.
“Latest raids said to hit sites including air defense units and surface-to-surface missile depots,” The Times of Israel reported Monday. These were the “heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region since 2012,” the news website reported, quoting Syrian sources.
A video posted on X shows a huge mushroom cloud and massive secondary explosions on the outskirts of the port city, suggesting that the airstrike hit a large weapons depot or stockpile.
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A powerful wave of attacks struck Tartus last night. According to Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen Channel, the IDF targeted 12 radar sites, an air defense system, and strategic weapons depots in Syria.
Syrian sources reported that the airstrikes in Tartus caused massive… pic.twitter.com/i5IR0mqAbN
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) December 16, 2024
The Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported the alleged Israeli nighttime strikes:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Israel Defense Forces launched massive attacks early Monday on the coastal Tartus region, in the largest attack witnessed since the beginning of the civil war 12 years ago.
The strikes, which began late Sunday, targeted weapons depots and air defenses.
Israel has stated that military operations in Syria have been undertaken to destroy weapons stores of the Assad regime, taking the opportunity to eliminate them after the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad.
Despite Syrian rebel leaders speaking against the strikes, the IDF said it will not allow these weapons, which include chemical and biological weapons, from reaching the hands of jihadists.
Last week, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) hit targets in Tartus and other Syrian port cities, destroying docked warships and weapons factories. Since early last week, Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes aimed at destroying Syria’s strategic military capabilities before Islamic and other rebel factions can get hold of them. The IAF is also targeting the former regime’s chemical weapons production facilities and stockpiles.
🎥WATCH @LTC_Shoshani explain the areas between Israel and Syria: pic.twitter.com/nh3txgKBkL
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 15, 2024
IDF intercepts Houthi missile over Tel Aviv
The Israeli air defense array on Monday intercepted a Houthi missile over Tel Aviv. Sirens were sounded across central Israel, and the Ben Gurion Airport was temporarily shut down due to incoming projectiles and falling debris.
🚨Sirens sounding across central Israel after projectile fire from Yemen🚨 pic.twitter.com/coVoKXxknv
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 16, 2024
Since October 7, the Iran-backed Islamic terrorist group has fired hundreds of missiles, including ballistics ones, at Israel. The jihadist group has tried to enforce a maritime blockade against Israel in the Red Sea, sinking and hijacking Western-owned commercial ships.
The Israeli news website YNET reported:
Air raid sirens blared across central Israel Monday afternoon, stretching from the Shfela region to the Sharon area, as the Israeli Air Force intercepted a missile launched from Yemen. The alarms were triggered due to concerns over falling interceptor debris.
Following the alerts, operations at Ben Gurion Airport were temporarily halted, including all takeoffs and landings. Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, reported no injuries or damage as of yet.
The missile launch coincided with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s testimony at the Tel Aviv District Court, which continued uninterrupted as the courtroom is located in a protected space. Netanyahu’s scheduled court appearance on Tuesday has been canceled, citing “security matters.”
IDF destroys Hamas command center, training base in southern Gaza
The IDF continued the counter-terrorism operation against the terrorist group Hamas, destroying a jihadist commander center and training base set up inside a Humanitarian zone in southern Gaza. The terrorist base is operating in a former United Nations school, the Israeli military revealed.
On Friday, Israeli fight jets “conducted a precise strike on Hamas terrorists who were operating inside a command and control center embedded within a compound that previously served as the UNRWA “Sheikh Jamil School” also known as the “Ahmed Abdul Aziz School” in the Humanitarian area in Khan Yunis,” the IDF announced Saturday.
“The command and control center included a training compound from which the Hamas terrorists planned to execute terrorist activities against IDF troops and advanced terrorist activities against the State of Israel,” the military disclosed. “The terrorists operated from a structure that previously served as a school, which is yet another example of how the terrorist organization systematically operates within civilian population.”
While Hamas yet again used Gaza civilians as human shields by setting up the terror base in a humanitarian area, Israel took painstaking measures to ensure the safety of residents in the vicinity. “Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, precise aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence,” the military assured.
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A little more than a year after the biggest miscalculation by a terrorist organization in the history of miscalculations, Israel is now safer today than it has been in (perhaps) its entire history. There’s only one last potential existential threat out there which is why anyone working in the Iranian nuclear weapons program should probably not make any long-term plans…other than estate planning.
The world certainly does have a lot to thank Hamas for 😂😂
To think, had Israel listened to Biden Hamas, Hesbullah and Iran would still be in power and untouched.
It should be highly entertaining to watch the action on 1/20/25 when President Trump lifts the lid on weapons shipments to Israel and clamps down on Iran again. Pass the popcorn.
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Well, if these are “sniffer” drones flying around the outskirts of NYC, Iran may be planning something before that date.
Once again, the Israel and the IDF show indefensibly and appallingly meek, cowed, emasculated, feckless and morally bankrupt western powers — led by vile, stupid and pro-Islamofascist/terrorist American Dhimmi-crats and European, leftist dhimmis — how to confront goose-stepping Muslim terrorists.
If western powers adhered to a vicious and uncompromising “zero tolerance” for Muslim terrorism policy and military force, the world would be better off.
I’m looking forward to #47 taking the Houthi thugs seriously. No more Mr. Nice Guy. The Dhimmi-crats’ failure to decisively deal with this band of miscreants, who could be destroyed in a single day, if the U.S. military chose, is contemptible and indefensible.
The Houthis are already seeing the writing on the wall and have called for peace before it’s imposed on them!
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