Bahrain backs Zionist regime's most direct confrontation in Syria

Bahrain has expressed support for Zionist regime after Tel Aviv hit dozens of military targets in Syria amid Syrian army advances against Takfiri terrorists and other foreign-backed militants.

According to Press TV, in a rare expression of support, Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Ale Khalifa twitted on Thursday that Tel Aviv had a right to "defend itself" after Zionist regime said it carried out some 50 raids inside Syria.   

Ale Khalifa copied claims made by Israeli authorities, praising the attack as a response to an Iranian rocket attack from the Syrian territory against Israeli military bases in the occupied Golan Heights.

Zionist regime claimed that the early Thursday assault was its most extensive strike against Syria in decades. Syria’s military said Thursday that the airstrikes had killed three people and destroyed a radar station and an ammunition warehouse.

In a statement carried by state news agency SANA, Syria’s foreign ministry said that the Israeli strikes on its territory were a “direct confrontation” that marked a “new phase” in the country’s seven-year conflict.

Syrian Arab Army's Commander Brig. Gen. Ali Mayhoub, who read a statement on Syrian television, said his country’s air defense systems had intercepted “the large part” of the incoming Israeli strikes.

Russia backed up the Syrian military’s claims, saying approximately half of the incoming Israeli missiles had been intercepted by Syrian air defenses. 

The Russian defense ministry told local media that 28 Israeli F-15 fighter jets had fired 60 missiles and ground troops had launched 10 surface-to-surface missiles at targets inside Syria.

Zionist regime's officials claimed the attack was a response to a barrage of 20 rockets from Syria at Israeli military outposts in Golan and blamed Iran for the attack.

Iranian officials traditionally do not respond to Israeli claims, saying they do not merit an answer. Nevertheless, an Iranian lawmaker quoted by Lebanon's Al-Manar television network, denied his country was behind the barrage.  

“Iran has nothing to do with the missiles that struck the enemy entity yesterday,” Deputy Head of Parliament's National Security Committee Abolfazl Hassan-Baygi reportedly said. 

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned the Israeli attack on Syria, calling it an attempt by "the main supporter of terrorist groups" in Syria to retaliate their many defeats against the Syrian government.

In a statement on Friday, Qassemi said the terror groups were in fact "proxies" waging a war on behalf of the US, Israel and their regional allies.

Zionist regime has stepped up its attacks on Syrian military positions in what is considered an attempt to prop up terrorist groups that have been suffering heavy losses and retreating on multiple fronts, most recently from their strongholds in Damascus suburbs. 

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