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Tuesday, September 4, 2018
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Syria says it fended off an Israeli airstrike near Hama
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSyria’s official state news agency says Israel attacked targets in the southern Syrian city of Hama, but the Israeli missiles were purportedly shot down by Syria’s air defenses.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the strike took place in the city of Masyaf, a location that foreign media outlets have claimed in the past was a scientific research site reportedly already struck by Israeli warplanes at least three times in the past.
The report of a strike comes just hours after an IDF official tells reporters in Israel that the Israeli Air Force has carried out 202 airstrikes in the past year.
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