Israeli warplane shot down as air force carries out large scale attack against Iranian targets in Syria after a drone violated its airspace
By Tariq Tahir For Mailonline
04:45 EST 10 Feb 2018, updated 15:28 EST 10 Feb 2018

Israel said F-16 was taking part in retaliation for what was 'serious Iranian attack'
Military said it carried out 'large scale' strike against Iranian and Syrian targets
Warplane downed by Syrian anti-aircraft fire, crashed in Israel, crew both alive
Israel said a drone launched from Syria was intercepted by a helicopter
An Israeli fighter has been shot down as the country's air force carried out attacks against Iranian targets in Syria after intercepting a drone.


The military said its planes faced massive anti-aircraft fire from Syria that forced two pilots to abandon an F-16 jet that crashed in northern Israel, seriously wounding one and lightly injuring the other.

'This is a serious Iranian attack on Israeli territory. Iran is dragging the region into an adventure in which it doesn't know how it will end,' Israel's chief military spokesman, Brigadier General Ronen Manelis, said in a statement.


The aircraft was an F-16, of the type pictured, that was taking part in strikes against a dozen targets in Syria (File picture)

'Whoever is responsible for this incident is the one who will pay the price.'



Israeli forces identified an 'Iranian UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)' launched from Syria and intercepted it in Israeli airspace with a combat helicopter, a statement said.

They then 'targeted the Iranian control systems in Syria that sent the UAV into Israeli airspace,' military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus tweeted.

'Massive Syrian anti-air fire, one F16 crashed in Israel, pilots safe.'

The Israeli military then carried out what it called a 'large scale attack' against Iranian and Syrian targets in Syria.


Israel has shot down several drones that previously tried to infiltrate its territory from Syria. The targeting of Iranian sites in response, however, mark an escalation in the Israeli retaliation.

The military said it struck 12 targets including three aerial defence batteries and four Iranian targets that are part of Iran's military establishment in Syria.

During the attack, anti-aircraft missiles were fired toward Israel jets triggering sirens that were sounded across northern Israel.


During the attack, anti-aircraft missiles were fired toward Israel jets triggering sirens that were sounded across northern Israel
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman was convening a meeting of senior officers at the IDF's headquarters in Tel Aviv to discuss a further response.

Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said Iran was 'responsible for this severe violation of Israeli sovereignty' and that the military was 'fully prepared for further action.'

Syrian state TV quoted a military official saying Syrian air defences hit more than one Israeli plane. The official said the Israeli raids hit a base in the country's central area, and called it a 'new aggression.'


Israel has long complained about the involvement of archenemy Iran, and Iranian proxy Hezbollah, in the Syria war.


The Shiite allies have sent forces to back Syrian President Bashar Assad, who appears headed toward victory after years of fighting.

Israel has said it will not accept a permanent military presence by Iran and its Shiite allies in Syria, especially near the Israeli border.

It has been warning of late of the increased Iranian involvement along its border in Syria and Lebanon.

The country fears Iran could use Syrian territory to stage attacks or create a land corridor from Iran to Lebanon that could allow it to transfer weapons more easily to Hezbollah.

The Israeli Cabinet recently held a meeting on the Golan Heights near the border with Syria to highlight to new threats.

The military confirmed that the initial target in Syria - the unmanned aircraft's launch components - was successfully destroyed. Israel says it has the Iranian drone in its possession.

Iran's Foreign Ministry declined to comment.


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After all of these decades people still haven't learned to not screw with Israel.

By early December 2017, the Israeli air force had confirmed it had attacked arms convoys of the Syrian government and Lebanon’s Hezbollah nearly 100 times during within over six years of the conflict in Syria.

Hypocritical twats.

Israel will put up one hell of a fight regardless of the outcome. This much I know.

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Originally posted by Carpentermaass84:
I have no doubt Israel will punish Syria 100-fold for daring to defend itself.

Tough shit. It's like cancer fighting a surgeon.

It cheers me to know the pilots will return another day to punish Syria for daring to defend itself.

These were Iranians stationed in Syria, not Syrians, operating the drones.
Seems likely they did it to provoke a response and had the SAMS ready in large numbers to do what they did.
Syria allows the use of their territory to screw whit the Israelis and Israel draws a real line in the sand.

I hope Trump sends them a replacement fighter jet. A better one.

Bruce

As Israel has proven many times, the best defence is to whoop the shit out of those about to or paying others to attack you.

I question whether Syria is a sovern(sp) country but ok....sure, they have the right of self defense, and Israel had to right to use MOABs.....lots of MOABs.

Can you imagine what America might do if someone like Cuba would allow someone like the Soviets to have a presence and establish base with weapons that could threaten the destruction to a large part of Americans?

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Originally posted by dewhorse:...

I question whether Syria is a sovern(sp) country ...

Syria is not a sovereign state, it is a whore state.

By choice, let the pimps and tricks beat her.

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Originally posted by Carpentermaass84:
but Syria is still a sovereign nation and has every right to respond to constant bombings with defensive weapons.

No.

Defensive weapons don’t invade Israeli airspace.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

Exactly. Israel puts up with so much shit. Be it in the form of direct attacks or the liberal media slandering them and it's all BS. The fact Israel hasn't turned all their shithead neighbors into a smoking pit shows how reasonable they've been.

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Originally posted by Carpentermaass84:
We have egg on our face for trying to arm a jihadist uprising that failed to topple Assad's government after 7 years.

Israel is assisting the Islamists as well.

Centre for Research on Globalisation

Might as well quote InforWars or TheBlaze.

While some of the content contains element of truth, the whole of it cannot be trusted.

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Originally posted by Carpentermaass84:
We have egg on our face for trying to arm a jihadist uprising that failed to topple Assad's government after 7 years. Iran and Russia outwitted us and now we're stuck with a situation where Iran has a client state that borders Israel. There is no solution to this problem other than a direct US invasion to put a Sunni theocratic government friendly to Israel in Assad's place.

Syria has always been a whore of Iran. This is nothing new. It’s common knowledge that planes come in and out of Damascus with terrorist fighters and weapons. Been going on for DECADES.

Do you have a point?

Such things occur in all wars and contests.

Often one allies with the "enemy" in order to put ones self and interests on better footing.

It's chess.

We did it with the Soviets in WWII, in a large an obvious fashion. We have done so in many other instances, some that still have not come to light.

And, yeah, I am biased. In case anyone ever misses that about me.

We've been bombing Syria too, and no one posting on this thread would justify Iran flying drones in our airspace. I can only think of one reason why some would treat Israel differently.