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Netanyahu Admits to Conducting Airstrikes in Syria

by VOA News

   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a recent Israeli
   airstrike in Syria targeted Iranian weapons.

   Speaking Sunday at an Israeli Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said: "Just in
   the last 36 hours the air force attacked Iranian warehouses containing
   Iranian weapons in the Damascus international airport."

   Israel's acknowledgement of a recent Israeli attack on Syria is rare.

   However, Israel's outgoing military chief of staff Lieutenant-General
   Gadi Eisenkot revealed in a recent New York Times interview that Israel
   had "struck thousands of targets without claiming responsibility or
   asking for credit."

   Netanyahu said Sunday: "The accumulated number of recent attacks proves
   that we are determined more than ever to act against Iran in Syria.

   The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the the
   Israeli strikes targeted positions near the airport and around the
   Kisweh area south of Damascus.