Israel's shadow war with Iran escalates in Syria with attacks, drone interception
Israel has reportedly carried out seven raids over the past month and nine since the beginning of the year inside Syria. Israel on Sunday intercepted a drone coming from Syria.
JERUSALEM — Israel's low-intensity conflict with Iran and its proxies in Syria escalated last week. Israel was suspected of carrying out three aerial attacks on Iranian targets inside Syria within four days, and on Sunday, the Israeli army downed object coming from Syria through its northern border.
Ynet reported Monday that the drone downed on Israel’s northern border was intercepted electronically, not by a missile or an unmanned aerial vehicle. The drone had penetrated Israeli territory from Syria, apparently in response to increased aerial attacks recently attributed to Israel. The IDF is now analyzing the remnants of the drone to determine if it was manufactured in Iran.
The incident is only the latest in series of escalation for Israel and Syria. The Syrian government media counted seven Israeli raids over the past month and nine since the beginning of the year.
According to reports in Syria, the most recent Israeli attack targeted a military airport used by the Iranian-allied Hezbollah organization to conduct weapons training and testing in the central Syrian region of Homs. Five Syrians were said to be injured. On Friday, an alleged Israeli airstrike on a Damascus suburb hit a weapons depot reportedly used by Iran, killing two Iranian military advisers, according to Syrian and Iranian state news outlets.
