Sheba Medical Centre
Melanie Phillips
Shariah Finance Watch
Australian Islamist Monitor - MultiFaith
West Australian Friends of Israel
Why Israel is at war
Lozowick Blog
NeoZionoid The NeoZionoiZeoN blog
Blank pages of the age
Silent Runnings
Jewish Issues watchdog
Discover more about Israel advocacy
Zionists the creation of Israel
Dissecting the Left
Paula says
Perspectives on Israel - Zionists
Zionism & Israel Information Center
Zionism educational seminars
Christian dhimmitude
Forum on Mideast
Israel Blog - documents terror war against Israelis
Zionism on the web
RECOMMENDED: newsback News discussion community
RSS Feed software from CarP
International law, Arab-Israeli conflict
Think-Israel
The Big Lies
Shmloozing with terrorists
IDF ON YOUTUBE
Israel's contributions to the world
MEMRI
Mark Durie Blog
The latest good news from Israel...new inventions, cures, advances.
support defenders of Israel
The Gaza War 2014
The 2014 Gaza Conflict Factual and Legal Aspects
To get maximum benefit from the ICJS website Register now. Select the topics which interest you.
The U.S. has broken its silence over Israel’s strike on a Syrian weapons convoy transporting weapons toLebanon.
According to reports published Thursday in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, American officials said overnight Wednesday that Jerusalem had informed Washington about the attack.
Israel told U.S. officials it had launched an air strike on a convoy carrying Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles from Syria to Hizbullah terrorist bases along the border with Lebanon.
Some reports claimed the strike occurred near the southwestern Syrian town of Zabadani, near the Lebanese border; others said the convoy was hit just after it had crossed the Syrian-Lebanese border and was approaching the village of Nabi Shi’ith.
SA-17 missiles in the hands of Hizbullah would be considered a game-changer in terms of the military capability of the terrorist army to launch a war against Israel, and the difficulty the Jewish State would face in defending its population against such an attack.
A Syrian rebel source said an aerial attack around dawn struck a convoy making its way towards the border about five kilometers south of the main Damascus-Beirut highway. The source said the convoy carried out the strike within Syria, and “attacked trucks carrying sophisticated weapons from the regime to Hizbullah.”
Lebanese sources reported that two waves of six Israeli Air Force warplanes flew over the town of Nakoura, in southwestern Lebanon, on Tuesday afternoon and evening, heading northeast over Bint Jbiel towards the Syrian border. The planes were heard once more upon their return at about 2:00 a.m. Wednesday, the sources said. Lebanese security officials confirmed there had been no strike within the country’s sovereign borders.
There has been no comment from the IDF, nor by the White House press secretary.
Syrian military headquarters denied the reports, but later said in a statement issued by state media that Israeli warplanes flying under the radar north of Mount Hermon bombed – and destroyed -- a “military research center” in Jamraya, located in Damascus province.
Original piece is http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164762