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Early on February 6, the Israeli Air Force delivered an wide-scale strike on targets in the countyside of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and in the province of Daraa Israeli aircraft launched several missiles from airspace over the occupied Golan Heights and southern Lebanon.
According to Syrian sources, the Al-Kiswa area, Marj al-Sultan, Baghdad Bridge near Damascus and the area south of Izraa in the province of Daraa became the main targets of the attack.
Syria's State media claimed that the Syrian Air Defense shot down most of the Israeli missiles before they were able to reach their targets. Pro-Israeli sources claim that the strikes successfully hit Iran-related targets destroying weapon depots and HQs of Iranian-backed forces.
The attack took place as the Syrian Army was storming the key stronghold of al-Qaeda-linked militants in the province of Idlib - the town of Saraqib. Right on cue, the Israeli military joined the club of
al-Qaeda's little helpers.
Comment: The Syrian General Command
stated that the Israelis and Turks worked together on this latest aggression:
"at 02:00 am on Thursday and in a blatant synchronicity with the Israeli air aggression and even under its cover, a Turkish military convoy that includes a number of vehicles and armored vehicles passed from Oglinar area into Syria.
The statement noted that the Turkish military convoy "deployed on the line between the towns of Binnish, Ma'ar Masrin and Taftanaz with the aim to protect terrorists, on top Jabhat al-Nusra, and to impede the advance of the Syrian Arab Army and to prevent it from completing the elimination of systematic terrorism which besieges civilians in Idleb province and take them as hostages and human shields."
Comment: The Syrian General Command stated that the Israelis and Turks worked together on this latest aggression: