{"id":9722,"date":"2024-12-11T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=9722"},"modified":"2024-12-11T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:16:22","slug":"arrow-of-bashan-israel-destroys-most-of-syrias-strategic-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/arrow-of-bashan-israel-destroys-most-of-syrias-strategic-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Arrow of Bashan\u2019: Israel Destroys Most of Syria\u2019s Strategic Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This all seems to have been expertly prepared, and Israel has grabbed territory in Syria claiming that it will not be given up<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2024\/12\/11\/arrow-bashan-israel-destroys-most-syrias-strategic-weapons\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Israeli soldiers operate in a location given as southern Syria, in this screengrab from a video obtained by Reuters on Dec. 9, 2024. Photo: Israel Defense Forces\/Handout via REUTERS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

JNS.org<\/a> \u2014 Israel struck most of Syria\u2019s strategic weapons arsenal since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, the IDF announced on Tuesday night, preventing them from falling into the hands of Islamic terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The military confirmed earlier reports that the Israeli Air Force conducted more than 350 aerial strikes, with hundreds of hours of flight time logged over Syrian airspace. The targets included anti-aircraft batteries, Syrian Air Force airfields, and dozens of weapons production sites in Damascus, Homs, Tartus, Latakia, and Palmyra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategic weapons were neutralized, including Scud tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, surface-to-sea, surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missiles, drones, fighter jets, attack helicopters, radar systems, tanks, and hangars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IDF has named the large-scale operation \u201cArrow of Bashan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday night, Israeli Navy missile ships attacked two Syrian Navy facilities simultaneously: Al-Bayda Port and Latakia Port, where 15 Syrian naval vessels were docked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the maritime operation, dozens of sea-to-sea missiles with ranges of 80 to 190 kilometers (50 to 120 miles) and carrying heavy explosive payloads were destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the IDF Northern Command\u2019s Fire Control Center conducted airstrikes against 130 enemy assets in Syria, including weapons depots, military structures, launchers, and firing positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hundreds of strikes marked the heaviest air campaign against Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is believed that the Syrian Air Force could be destroyed in its entirety \u201cwithin a few days,\u201d Ynet<\/em> noted, which would substantially reduce the threat posed to the Jewish state by the incoming Syrian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last time Israel destroyed an entire air force was in 1967, when the Egyptian Air Force was wiped out in the first hours of the Six-Day War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assad fled Damascus on Sunday as a coalition of rebel groups stormed the capital, ending his family\u2019s five-decade rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe tyrant Bashar Assad has been overthrown,\u201d a rebel spokesperson declared in a statement carried on state television on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense Minister Israel Katz warned on Tuesday that any entity threatening Israel\u2019s security would face dire consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at a naval base in Haifa, Katz revealed that Israeli forces had destroyed Syria\u2019s navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe IDF has acted in recent days to attack and destroy strategic capabilities that threaten the State of Israel,\u201d Katz said, cautioning rebels that \u201cwhoever follows in Assad\u2019s footsteps will end up like Assad did.\u201d He emphasized Israel\u2019s resolve to prevent any \u201cextremist Islamic terror entity\u201d from operating against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katz also announced the establishment of a temporary demilitarized zone beyond the buffer zone Israel has taken over in the border area. This \u201csterile defensive zone\u201d in southern Syria aims to prevent terrorist threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned during a meeting at the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces in Tel Aviv on Tuesday that if the new Syrian jihadist regime befriends Iran, Israel will take decisive action against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf this regime allows Iran to regain its foothold in Syria, or allows the transfer of Iranian weapons or any other weapons to Hezbollah, or attacks us, we will respond forcefully and we will exact a heavy price from it,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cWhat happened to the previous regime will happen to this regime as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel has no intention of interfering in Syria\u2019s internal affairs, the prime minister said, but would take action it deemed necessary for its security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, he said he had authorized the Israeli Air Force to bomb \u201cstrategic military capabilities left by the Syrian army so that they would not fall into the hands of the jihadists.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This all seems to have been expertly prepared, and Israel has grabbed territory in Syria claiming that it will not be given up. https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2024\/12\/11\/arrow-bashan-israel-destroys-most-syrias-strategic-weapons\/ JNS.org \u2014 Israel struck most of Syria\u2019s strategic weapons arsenal since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, the IDF announced on Tuesday night, preventing them from falling into the hands of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9726,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}