{"id":21664,"date":"2010-08-30T01:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T23:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=21664"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:50:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:50:30","slug":"israel-preparing-to-attack-syria-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/08\/30\/israel-preparing-to-attack-syria-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel preparing to attack Syria: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Israel is reportedly preparing to strike arms depots and weapons manufacturing plants in Syria, claiming they belong to the Islamic resistance movement Hezbollah, a report says. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tel Aviv has escalated its military presence in the occupied Golan Heights and the northern part of the Shebaa Farms, the Israeli newspaper\u00a0<em>Ha&#8217;aretz<\/em> said, citing a report in the Saturday edition of the Kuwaiti daily\u00a0<em>Al Rai<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The report quoted European sources as saying that <strong>recent Israeli reconnaissance flights<\/strong>, <strong>which violated Lebanese and Syrian airspace<\/strong>, are indications that Israel is ready to start a war in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The potential targets are located far inside Syrian territory, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Israel remains technically at war with both Syria and Lebanon since it refuses to return the lands it occupied alongside vast expanses of other Arab territories during large-scale military operations in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2007, at least four Israeli fighters crossed into Syrian airspace and launched an attack on an alleged nuclear facility, which caused a significant rise in tension.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey-mediated talks between the two sides fell apart after Israel started the December 2008-January 2009 war on the Gaza Strip, which killed over 1,400 Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Israel also started a war against Lebanon in 2006, which killed about 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli President Shimon Peres leveled a whole host of accusations against both countries, saying Damascus had supplied Russian-made scud missiles to Hezbollah, which defended the country during Israel&#8217;s attacks on Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>the Israeli allegations have been categorically rejected by the governments of Syria and Lebanon as well as by the Hezbollah movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=20807\">https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/israel-preparing-to-attack-syria-report\/20807<\/span>, August 29, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is reportedly preparing to strike arms depots and weapons manufacturing plants in Syria, claiming they belong to the Islamic resistance movement Hezbollah, a report says. Tel Aviv has escalated its military presence in the occupied Golan Heights and the northern part of the Shebaa Farms, the Israeli newspaper\u00a0Ha&#8217;aretz said, citing a report in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":32532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,183,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}