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Friday, August 2, 2024
Report: Iran planning to launch drones at Israel from Syria as part of threatened retaliatory attack
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Iran is reportedly planning to launch drones at Israel from Syria as part of its threatened retaliatory attack for the assassinations of two leaders from its proxy terror groups over the past week.
Citing unnamed sources, the UK-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that the drones could be launched from areas near Damascus and from the Syrian desert, to look like they were launched by Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq.
According to the SOHR report, the Iranian proxy groups have also ordered operatives not to target American military bases if the United States does not participate in defending Israel during the attack.
US President Joe Biden yesterday stressed America’s commitment to defending Israel’s security “against all threats from Iran.”
The threats come after Israel assassinated Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr on Tuesday, days after the terror group’s rocket attack killed 12 young people in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. The death of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, which came just hours later in Tehran, was widely attributed to Israel as well, though it has not claimed responsibility for it.
SOHR, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale.
The Times of Israel Community.