{"id":33363,"date":"2021-01-09T01:20:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=33363"},"modified":"2021-01-09T01:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:20:47","slug":"israel-launches-first-attack-on-syria-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=33363","title":{"rendered":"Israel launches first attack on Syria in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almasdarnews.com\/article\/author\/dfroberg\/\">News Desk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIRUT LEBANON (12:50 P.M.) \u2013 Last night, the Israeli Air Force launched fresh strikes over Syria, as they continued their campaign to target sites inside the Arab Republic in the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a field source in Damascus, the Israeli Air Force launched the strikes on a number of sites in southern Syria from the occupied Golan Heights, prompting the activation of the air defenses of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The source said the Israeli strikes began around 11:00 P.M. (local time) and that they targeted the Al-Sweida countryside, where the majority of missiles were fired at the Syrian Arab Army\u2019s military base in the village of Al-Dour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He pointed out that the Syrian Arab Army\u2019s air defenses were deployed from rural Al-Sweida and the Mezzeh Airport in Damascus, with several of the Israeli projectiles intercepted by their systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he would add that while a number of missiles were intercepted, some of them managed to hit their targets, especially near the radar base of the Syrian Arab Army in the village of Al-Dour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The death toll from the attack is still unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest attack by the Israeli Air Force marks the first time this year that they have launched strikes on the Arab Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their last strikes occurred on December 30th, when they targeted the western countryside of the Rif Dimashq Governorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.almasdarnews.com\/article\/israel-launches-first-attack-on-syria-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.almasdarnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by News Desk BEIRUT LEBANON (12:50 P.M.) \u2013 Last night, the Israeli Air Force launched fresh strikes over Syria, as they continued their campaign to target sites inside the Arab&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33366,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33363\/revisions\/33366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}