Security alert alongside diplomatic tensions ahead of Bennett and Putin meeting: The
defense establishment is aware of Iran's recent threats to respond to last night's attack on Israel in Syria and takes very seriously the possibility that Syria - or Iran's metastases in the region - will try to respond.
As you may recall, the pro-Iranian militias in Syria today explicitly threatened to take revenge, it was written this morning in a statement issued by the joint command room of the organizations operating in Syria.
The statement said that four gunmen from the organizations had been killed in an IDF attack in the Homs area and that others had been wounded.
According to the announcement on the Hezbollah-affiliated news network Al-Mayadin, during the attack, which was launched from the border triangle between Jordan, Iraq and Syria and controlled by the United States, a militia recruitment site and several other facilities serving the organizations in the east were attacked. The country.
Meeting at the height of security tensions in the region.
Bennett and Putin, Photo: Reuters, Jonathan Zindel - Flash 90
Meanwhile, the Russian Center for Coordination and Reconciliation in Syria, the Russian body dealing with Moscow's involvement in the country, announced tonight that yesterday four Israeli F-16s carried out the attack near the city of Tadmor in Syria.
According to the Russian Center, the Syrian army decided not to use anti-aircraft missiles against the planes due to two civilian planes passing in the area, one flew from Baghdad to Beirut and the other made its way to Damascus and the Syrians were afraid to hit them.
As you may recall, this comes a week before Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, where they are to discuss, among other things, political and security issues.