Israel targets Hezbollah arms in Syria

Israel targets Hezbollah arms in Syria

Israeli fighter jets bombed targets in Syria for a second time in three days on Sunday, targeting what was described by US officials as a shipment of Iranian missiles intended for militant Lebanese organization Hezbollah.br The attack targeted a warehouse at Damascus airport where the missiles were being stored according to the New York Times.br Reuters, quoting a Western intelligence source, said "In last night's attack, as in the previous one, what was attacked were stores of Fateh-110 missiles that were in transit from Iran to Hezbollah."br Analysts say the Fateh-110 could put the Tel Aviv metropolis in range of Hezbollah gunners, 100 km (60 miles) to the north, bolstering the arsenal of a group that fired some 4,000 shorter-range rockets into Israel during a month-long war in 2006.br Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his aim for Israel was to "guarantee its future" - language he has used to warn of a willingness to attack Iran's nuclear sites, even in defiance of U.S. advice, as well as to deny Hezbollah heavier weapons.br Syrian state television said bombing at a military research facility at Jamraya and two other sites caused "many civilian casualties and widespread damage", but it gave no details. The Jamraya compound was also a target for Israel on January 30.br Hezbollah's Al-Manar television showed a flattened building spread over the size of a football pitch, with smoke rising from rubble containing shell fragments. It did not identify it.br Hezbollah, a Shi'ite movement that says it is defending Lebanon from Israeli aggression, declined immediate comment.br br INCLUDE IN TOMONEWSUS AS FOOTER.


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