{"id":79341,"date":"2018-05-10T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79341"},"modified":"2018-05-10T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:46:56","slug":"israel-strikes-at-quds-force-rocket-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79341","title":{"rendered":"Israel strikes at Quds Force rocket batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79342\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qassem-suleimani1-382x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qassem-suleimani1-382x333.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qassem-suleimani1-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/qassem-suleimani1.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-israel-golan-rockets\/iranian-forces-in-syria-fired-rockets-at-israeli-targets-in-golan-israeli-military-idUSKBN1IA3GF\">Reuters<\/a>, Iranian Quds Force rocket batteries fired dozens of rockets at Israeli installations in Golan. The Israeli&#8217;s Iron Dome shot down about 20 of those rockets, other Iranian rockets fell short of their targets.<\/p>\n<p>The Israelis responded to the attack by destroying all of the Iranian batteries in Syria;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was the heaviest Israeli barrage in Syria since the start in 2011 of its civil war, in which Iranians, allied Shi\u2019ite militias and Russian soldiers have deployed in support of President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Syria\u2019s Army Command said three people were killed and two injured. A war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the strikes killed at least 23 military personnel, including Syrians and non-Syrians. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2018\/05\/09\/golan-heights-rocket-attack\/596875002\/\">USA Today<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Late Tuesday, Syrian state media said Israel struck a military outpost near the capital of Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the missiles targeted depots and rocket launchers that likely belonged to Iran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guard, killing at least 15 people, eight of them Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, an attack on Syria\u2019s T4 air base in Homs province killed seven Iranian military personnel. On April 30, Israel was said to have struck government outposts in northern Syria, killing more than a dozen pro-government fighters, many of them Iranians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/israel-launches-extensive-syria-strike-after-iranian-rocket-barrage-1.6073938\">Haaretz<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Israeli military accused the Revolutionary Guards&#8217; Al Quds force and its commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, of launching the attack at the Israeli Golan Heights. This is the first time Israel has directly accused Iran of firing toward Israeli territory&#8230;Russia&#8217;s Defense Ministry said that the Israeli strike on Syria used 28 planes, fired 70 missiles, adding that Syria shot down more than half of Israeli missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday morning that Israel has struck &#8220;all of the Iranian infrastructure in Syria.&#8221; Lieberman said that Israel does not seek escalation, but added that it won&#8217;t allow Iran to turn Syria into a &#8220;forward base&#8221; against Israel. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-5256289,00.html\">spokesman from the Israeli Defense Forces<\/a> claimed that it will take months for the Iranians in Syria to recover from the Israeli strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Reuters, Iranian Quds Force rocket batteries fired dozens of rockets at Israeli installations in &hellip; <a title=\"Israel strikes at Quds Force rocket batteries\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79341\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Israel strikes at Quds Force rocket batteries<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}