Flush with billions in cash from Obama’s treasonous nuclear deal, what better way to distract the Iranian people (and the world) from the hijab-burning freedom revolution, than to start a war with the Jewish state?
IDF has targeted the Iranian control systems in Syria that sent the #UAV into Israeli airspace. Massive Syrian Anti-Air fire, one F16 crashed in Israel, pilots safe. #Iran is responsible for this severe violation of Israeli sovereignty. Event ongoing, more to follow.
— LTC (S.) Nadav Shoshani (@LTC_Shoshani) February 10, 2018
Israeli F-16I destroyed in attacks prompted by Iranian UAV infiltration
Hezbollah: Downing of Israeli F-16 the start of a ‘new strategic era’
Lebanese terror group praises ‘vigilance’ of Syrian army, says crashed jet marks ‘decisive end to old arrangements’
Hezbollah hailed Syria’s air defenses after they reportedly downed an Israeli fighter jet on Saturday, saying it marked the start of a “new strategic era.”
“This is the beginning of a new strategic era which puts an end to the violation of Syrian airspace and territory,” the Lebanese terror group said in a statement published by Lebanon’s ANI news agency.
Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy backing Syrian President Bashar Assad in his country’s civil war, praised the “vigilance of the Syrian army,” and said it had “bravely blocked Israeli warplanes and downed an F-16.”
It also said the Syrian response marked “a decisive end to old arrangements.”
Hezbollah supporters were celebrating the incident on Saturday across from the Israeli city of Metulla, according to Israeli TV reports.
The statement from Hezbollah came after its allies Iran and Syria denied that an unmanned drone Israel said it shot down violated the Jewish state’s airspace, calling Israeli allegations “lies,” and saying the drone was on a regular mission gathering intelligence on the Islamic State.
The drone incident led to a barrage of Israeli airstrikes on Iranian and Syrian targets in Syria. Syria responded with heavy anti-aircraft fire that set off multiple warning sirens in Israel and managed to down an Israeli F-16 in Israeli territory, seriously wounding a pilot.
According to the Israeli military, the confrontation began with the drone entering Israeli airspace before being intercepted by a combat helicopter over the city of Beit Shean, near the Jordanian border.
The military called the infiltration a “severe and irregular violation of Israeli sovereignty,” and said Iran would be held responsible for its outcome, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions along Israel’s northern border.
The IDF released video footage early Saturday afternoon of the drone’s destruction over Israeli territory, as well as the subsequent IDF strike on its Iranian command vehicle in Syria.
Israel said it later targeted at least 12 other sites “including three aerial defense batteries and four Iranian targets that are part of Iran’s military establishment in Syria,” according to a military statement.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said Syria “has the right to legitimate self-defense. To cover their crimes in the region, Israeli officials are resorting to lies against other countries.”
The deputy chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned, meanwhile, that his country could “bring hell upon the Zionist regime.”
Brigadier General Hossein Salami refused to confirm to the Tasnim news agency that an Iranian drone had been shot down. “We cannot confirm this report on the drone because Israelis are liars … if Syrians confirm it, Iran will confirm it as well,” said Salami, according to a Reuters translation.
But he warned that Tehran had the capability to destroy all US army bases in the region and to “bring hell upon the Zionist regime.”
A Syrian military official said that his country would continue to respond in kind to all attacks on its soil.
“Our defense systems hit a number of missiles as well as an Israeli aircraft that had been carrying out attacks south of the Damascus capital, to its west and on the outskirts of Homs,” the Syrian official told the Lebanese El Nashra news outlet.
He added that the damage sustained from the Israeli aircraft fire was limited to property, but acknowledged that a number of soldiers had been injured as well.
The Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen TV station claimed that the Syrian military had managed to intercept 70 percent of the dozens of missiles fired by Israel’s warplanes.
The confrontation was the most serious between Israel and Iran since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011.
Watch: F-16 pilot parachutes down after ejecting from plane
Diplomatic sources said Israel has appealed to Russia to intervene and prevent further escalation. Similar calming messages were reportedly passed on to Washington.
IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis said Israel held Iran directly responsible for the incident.
“This is a serious Iranian attack on Israeli territory. Iran is dragging the region into an adventure in which it doesn’t know how it will end,” he said in a special statement. “Whoever is responsible for this incident is the one who will pay the price.”
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot and Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin were leading operations from army headquarters in Tel Aviv, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding security assessments and approving operations in real time.
By noon Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman was convening the top brass at military headquarters in Tel Aviv to discuss a further response.
“The IDF is following events and is fully prepared for further action according to decisions and need,” the military said.
Israel has been warning of late of the increased Iranian involvement along its border in Syria and Lebanon. It fears Iran could use Syrian territory to stage attacks, or create a land corridor from Iran to Lebanon that could allow it to transfer weapons more easily to Hezbollah.
The Israeli Cabinet recently held a meeting on the Golan Heights near the border with Syria to highlight new threats, which are attributed to Iran’s growing confidence given Assad’s apparent victory in Syria thanks to their help.
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Here we see obama spilling the blood of Western Civilization, fighting on the side of chaos, mayhem, evil, from beyond the power.
We will never be a good country and the beacon of hope for the world again until obama is convicted, sentenced and hanged.
obama — History’s Most Ignominious Traitor.
Good luck with that!
We have a shot at that with Hillary’s Uranium One deal with Russia. More DEM collusion! I’d let Hillary slide if she turned on Obama. He knew about it.
Do you think Salami Hussein is English translation of Barak Hussein? Or is that Pastrami?
Salami. Baloney. Voorsht. Wurst. Sausage. Saucisson.
All the same
LOL!!!
Obama is a scumbag!!! Obummer is a traitor to Israel and the United States.
Obama needs to disappear and never be heard from again.
Thank G-d for President Trump and divine intervention!
Cash From Obama’s Iran Ransom Traced to Terror Groups. The ca$h was way over a Billion Dollars, more than most foreign aid to America’s allies.
Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/cash-from-obama-s-iran-ransom-traced-to-terror-groups#kj8H4oMJRwwSZTqc.99
I would say it’s typical of islamic dead-enders like hezblowad to proclaim “a new strategic era” when the Trump administration is one year old.
See: ISIS.
LOL.
Time for the military to get out the maps of Iran, along with their big Pink Pearl erasers and teach them, and the rest of the world’s scum, some lessons.
Wouldn’t right now be a good time to eradicate the phony-baloney,non-existent “Palestinian” state?
What is Iran doing in Syria anyway, other than attacking Israel directly or indirectly? I do not want an escalation of war right now, not with Turkey and the Kurds fighting as well in Northern Syria, but they need to LEAVE ISRAEL ALONE.
Helping Russia protect Assad. That’s why syria shot down the Israeli plane.
Well, perhaps, but Hezbollah is also seemingly targeting Israel, and I have no idea why.
If someone attacks you jump on their ass with both feet. An old lesson that seems to need constantly relearned.
At least the pilot was recovered safely. Hopefully Israel gleaned some electronics data from the anti-aircraft systems employed by the muslums to shoot down the F-16.
“Watch: F-16 pilot parachutes down after ejecting from plane” No video, just a blank space on this page
“…a decisive end to old arrangements.”
I guess they want an early death. You have declared WAR on Israel?
Yeah, they’ve got S4B. No cure for it, but to expunge.
Remember when Assad was able to cause a gutless Obhammud to eat his “red lines”, twice? But the Iranians and the Syrian regime they are helping to prop up are acting just like two-bit commiecrat politicians in the US, accusing others of engaging in the very same stunts which they themselves perpetrate.
I hope Trump DEFUNDS more Muslim countries and puts that money towards
our WALL on the south and protects the north too. Look at the money Obama happily gave to our enemies. Our TAX DOLLARS!
OBAMA IS A SCUMBAG!!!
Obama is a the biggest scumbag and terrorists supporter the United States has ever had. He provided billions to arm the terrorist country of Iran.
Israel has technology that will knock Iran out. Syria better leave Israel alone.
Thank G-d Trump is President – one blessing which will help Israel.
The US and Israel must remain vigilant as Iran is the world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism today.
Speedy recovery to the Israeli fighter pilots.
G-D BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT 2020!!!!!
OBAMA WAS A TRAITOR TO THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL!!
OBAMA IS A SOCIOPATH AND MUSLIM.
OBAMA ENGINEERED THE IMMORAL IRAN DEAL AND ARMED ISRAEL’S AND THE UNITED STATES ENEMIES WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
DEATH TO THE TRAITOR OBAMA!
G-D BLESS ISRAEL AND THE US.
Can anyone tell me what Israel should do?
Let’s get this thing going. It’s going to happen, no stopping it. The sooner it starts the sooner it’s over.