Netanyahu admits to personally ordering Syria strikes

In a rare public acknowledgement of Israeli operations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he personally ordered the recent airstrikes against Syrian military positions.

According to Press TV, the Zionist regime’s premier made the provocative remarks on Sunday shortly after new air raids struck Syrian military positions in the southern region of Quneitra near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing three soldiers and wounding seven others.

Israel claims it was responding to two rockets allegedly launched from Syria late Saturday, which caused no casualties.

“We will not tolerate firing into our territory and will respond fiercely against any aggression against us,” Netanyahu said.

Hours after the Quneitra airstrikes, Zionist regime launched missile attacks against the T-4 airbase near the western Syrian city of Homs, killing an army soldier and wounding two others.

The Syrian air defense reportedly managed to successfully intercept a number of the missiles.

The Israeli prime minister further threatened strikes against positions of Iranian military advisers in Syria, claiming that “anyone who tries to hurt us will be hurt far worse.”

The Israeli air force has staged repeated air raids against Syrian military bases that it claims are used by Iranian military advisers.

Iranian advisers are in Syria on the request of the country's legitimate government to help the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.

Syria’s official SANA news agency said the recent Israeli airstrikes are an attempt to prop up terrorist groups based in Western Provinces of Hama and Idlib that have been suffering heavy defeats against Syrian government forces.

“The aggression comes in conjunction with the terrorists in Hama and Idlib,” SANA wrote on Sunday night.

“The Israeli enemy has intervened over the past several years to support its collapsing terrorist tools,” the report said.

SANA said the attacks came after Syrian forces liberated several villages in Idlib from “terrorist groups.” 

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