{"id":25976,"date":"2017-09-22T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25976"},"modified":"2017-09-22T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:40:03","slug":"israel-strikes-damascus-after-syrian-missile-defense-fires-on-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25976","title":{"rendered":"Israel Strikes Damascus After Syrian Missile Defense Fires On Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the third time in as many weeks Israel has reportedly bombed positions inside Syria. Syrian state media along with multiple regional outlets showed fires burning at a facility near the Damascus international airport in the early hours of Friday. Israeli newspaper Haaretz<\/a>reports that like with previous attacks, Israel jets fired from over Lebanese airspace. But it appears the latest exchange was part of a tit-for-tat exchange of fire between Syria and Israel in a situation that continues to dangerously escalate.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Multiple reports are circulating that the Israeli attack was initiated after Syria’s aerial defense missile system engaged and fired on an Israeli aircraft in the area. Video of what purports to show Syrian missiles firing on the aircraft circulated widely in Syrian social media and was picked up by Lebanese and Israeli news outlets. Early reports indicate that an Israeli drone was likely the target.<\/p>\n

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#<\/span>Syrian<\/span><\/a> air defense downing an #<\/span>Israeli<\/span><\/a> drone over #<\/span>Syria<\/span><\/a> tonight.<\/p>\n

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\nEarly Friday morning images of the aftermath of the Israeli strike circulated in regional media. Image source: Jerusalem Post via Syrian social media.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Israel Strikes Damascus After Syrian Missile Defense Fires On Aircraft For the third time in as many weeks Israel has reportedly bombed positions inside Syria. Syrian state media along with multiple regional outlets showed fires burning at a facility near the Damascus international airport in the early hours of Friday. Israeli newspaper Haaretzreports that like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[189,1049,776,4318],"class_list":["post-25976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-damascus","tag-israel","tag-syria","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25979,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25976\/revisions\/25979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}