The massive Israeli attacks against Iranian targets in Syria the night before Monday were, according to official spokesmen, a response to Iran's missile attack. For an hour, Iranian targets were bombed around Damascus, several of them inside Syrian bases. Prior to that, Israel had informed the Syrian government that if its air defenses shot the Israeli plans, Israel would attack the anti-aircraft batteries.

The massive Israeli attacks against Iranian targets in Syria the night before Monday were, according to official spokesmen, a response to Iran's missile attack. For an hour, Iranian targets were bombed around Damascus, several of them inside Syrian bases. Prior to that, Israel had informed the Syrian government that if its air defenses shot the Israeli plans, Israel would attack the anti-aircraft batteries.



The Syrians ignored the Israeli threat and sent bursts of SAM missiles to the Israeli plans - whereupon the Israelis knocked out a few Syrian air defense ramps. As a result, Israel-Russia relations are being heated at the same time, because the inability of the Russian systems to rescue the Syrian airspace is bothering Moscow. In a Russian bulletin it was announced that four Syrians were killed by the Israeli missiles, but most of them were shot down. Syrian opposition sources state that eleven Syrians were killed. "