Syrian Air Defense Units Intercept Israeli Missiles Near Damascus, Thwarting THIRD Raid in a Week – Russian Defense Ministry

• Syrian Air Defense Units Intercept Israeli Missiles Near Damascus, Thwarting THIRD Raid in a Week – Russian Defense Ministry
  by https://www.rt.com/ , 26 July 2021
  The Syrian military intercepted two missiles fired by Israeli fighter jets at the Damascus suburb of Set Zaynab over the weekend, thwarting the third airstrike in just a week, using Russian-made air defense systems.
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  The airstrike was conducted from outside Syrian airspace at around 5:40am Sunday morning, when two Israeli F-16 jets fired two guided missiles targeting unspecified facilities in the town of Set (Sayyidah) Zaynab 10km south of Damascus.
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  Syrian air defense units equipped with Russian-made Buk-M2E systems successfully intercepted both of them, the head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, said in a daily briefing.
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  On Wednesday night, two Israeli F-16 jets fired four guided missiles from Lebanese airspace at Syria’s Homs province. All of them were shot down, also using Russian-made Buk-M2Es. On Monday night, four Israeli jets penetrated Syrian airspace through the area of At-Tanf on the Jordanian border, controlled by the US military, and fired eight missiles into Aleppo province. Seven of them were reportedly shot down by Buk-M2 and Pantsir-S systems, but the remaining one struck a scientific research facility in the town of Safira.
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  While Israeli officials rarely acknowledge the raids, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warplanes have routinely rained down missiles on Syrian territory in recent years under the pretext of self-defense against the ‘Iranian threat’.
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  Damascus has protested the repeated attacks as blatant acts of aggression, while Russia, Turkey, and Iran recently jointly condemned the Israeli raids as violations of sovereignty and international humanitarian laws.
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