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Thursday 20 March 2014 - 07:44

Israeli Warplanes Bomb Syrian Army Posts, SA Warns

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Israeli Warplanes Bomb Syrian Army Posts, SA Warns
It said targets included a Syrian military headquarters, a training facility and artillery batteries. Aircraft carried out the overnight strike, the military spokesman, Peter Lerner, said. He described targets as military facilities on the Syrian-held side of the Golan.
 
General Command of the Syrian army said the Zionist enemy's warplanes targeted Wednesday morning the sites of Koum al-Wissiyeh, Nabe' al-Fawar and Sa'sa' on the outskirts of the liberated city of Quneitra, leaving one soldier martyr and 7 others wounded.
 
In a new violation of the agreement on disengagement by firing a number of artillery, tank and anti-tank rocket shells near Sehita village and on 1023 hill on Tuesday afternoon, causing material losses.
 
"The Israeli aggression coincided with an attack by numbers of terrorists on the Central Prison in Daraa city from the direction of Jordan," the statement noted.
 
"This new aggression came in a bid to divert attention from the successive victories achieved by the Syrian Arab Army," the Army's General Command said, citing particularly the "great achievement" in Yabroud city "which dealt a startling blow to the terrorist organizations and their backers, on top being the Zionist entity".
 
The Command added that the aggression also aimed at "giving a dose of moral support to the terrorist gangs tumbling under the Syrian Arab Army's strikes".
 
Moreover, it stressed determination to go ahead with war against the terrorist organizations until eliminating them, warning that "such desperate attempts at escalation ... through repeating these aggressive acts would jeopardize the region's security and stability and make it vulnerable to all options."
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