{"id":34113,"date":"2018-05-09T19:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T00:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34113"},"modified":"2018-05-09T19:13:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T00:13:22","slug":"in-major-escalation-israel-unleashes-airstrikes-shelling-on-syria-in-retaliation-for-alleged-iran-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34113","title":{"rendered":"In Major Escalation, Israel Unleashes Airstrikes, Shelling On Syria In Retaliation For Alleged Iran Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Major Escalation, Israel Unleashes Airstrikes, Shelling On Syria In Retaliation For Alleged Iran Attack<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Summary:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The situation is fluid to say the least, but as far as we can tell this is what has happened tonight so far:<\/p>\n

1. Sirens go off in Golan Heights<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Loud explosions <\/strong>heard<\/p>\n

Then blame-game begins…<\/p>\n

3. AP: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Wednesday that Israel has attacked<\/u> targets of the Syrian military<\/strong> on the outskirts of Quneitra.<\/p>\n

4. AP: Activists reported rocket fire from Israel<\/u> into southern Syrian<\/strong> just before midnight Wednesday.<\/p>\n

5. AP: The Israeli army says it is investigating and has no further details.<\/p>\n

6. IDF report that Iranian Quds force fired<\/u> 20 rockets towards forward IDF positions on Golan Heights<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

7. According to al-Mayadeen (pro-gov) 10 positions of the Israeli Army were shelled with rockets<\/strong>, and several vehicles were targeted with guided missiles.<\/p>\n

8. The IDF views this event with great severity and remains prepared for a wide variety of scenarios<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

9. Exchanges continue…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it is unclear who started the ‘fight’ but for now rocket exchanges continue.<\/p>\n

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\nUpdate III:<\/strong> AP reports the two sides’ versions of events…<\/p>\n

Israel:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iranian forces based in Syria fired 20 rockets at Israeli front-line military positions in the Golan Heights<\/strong> early Thursday, the Israeli military said, triggering an Israeli reprisal and further escalating heightened tensions between the two bitter enemies in neighboring Syria.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said its Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted some of the incoming projectiles, while others caused only minimal damage. There were no Israeli casualties.<\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a military spokesman, said Iran’s Al Quds force had fired the rockets at several Israeli bases, though he would not say how Israel had determined the Iranian involvement.<\/strong><\/u> The incoming attack set off air raid sirens in the Israeli-controlled Golan.<\/p>\n

Israel “views this Iranian attack very severely,” <\/strong>Conricus told reporters. He said Israel had responded, but did not provide details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In Major Escalation, Israel Unleashes Airstrikes, Shelling On Syria In Retaliation For Alleged Iran Attack Summary: The situation is fluid to say the least, but as far as we can tell this is what has happened tonight so far: 1. Sirens go off in Golan Heights 2. Loud explosions heard Then blame-game begins… 3. AP: […]<\/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":[7364,3041,441,1049,10339,3040,776,862,4318],"class_list":["post-34113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-airstrikes","tag-golan-heights","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-military-escalation","tag-missiles","tag-syria","tag-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34113","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=34113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34114,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34113\/revisions\/34114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}