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Israel acts to deny Hezbollah arms

Agence France-PresseMay 19, 2013 20:30

Israel is "acting" to prevent weapons from Syria from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. His remarks came two weeks after Israel carried out air strikes near Damascus, which a senior Israeli source said were aimed at preventing the transfer of sophisticated Iranian arms to Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Netanyahu said the Middle East was going through its most sensitive period for decades, with the conflict in Syria at the centre of the turmoil.

Israel acts to deny Hezbollah arms

Agence France-PresseMay 19, 2013 10:00

Israel is "acting" to prevent Syrian weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. His remarks came two weeks after Israel carried out air strikes near Damascus, which a senior Israeli source said were aimed at preventing the transfer of sophisticated Iranian arms to Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Netanyahu said the Middle East was going through its most sensitive period for decades, with the conflict in Syria at the centre of the turmoil.

Syria will 'respond immediately' to any Israeli strike

Agence France-PresseMay 11, 2013 16:45

Syria threatened on Thursday an immediate response to any new Israeli strike, after two reported attacks on military targets, as its Lebanese ally Hezbollah said Damascus would arm it with 'game-changing' weapons despite those strikes. Damascus also welcomed a US-Russian initiative to find a political solution to end the two-year-old civil war, though again balking at Washington's demand that President Bashar al-Assad would need to stand down. And it said it was ready to receive a UN team to probe claims that chemical weapons had been used in the country.

Obama on airstrikes: Israel has to guard against Hezbollah

Thomson ReutersMay 7, 2013 11:35

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday that Israel has the right to guard against the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah a day after Israel attacked a Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria. Israel has long made clear it is prepared to resort to force to prevent advanced Syrian weapons from reaching Hezbollah or jihadi rebels. Israeli warplanes went after the shipment inside Syria, where a two-year civil war is raging.

Syrian rebels say Israel targeted missile convoy headed to Hezbollah

Thomson ReutersMay 7, 2013 11:08

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebel commander Qassim Saadedine said on Saturday an Israeli strike targeted a convoy of missiles being sent to Hezbollah in Lebanon. "Our information indicates there was an Israeli strike on a convoy that was transferring missiles to Hezbollah. We have still not confirmed the location," said Saadedine, a defected colonel, speaking to Reuters by telephone from his base on the Turkish-Syrian border.

Israel confirms Syria strike, says hit Hezbollah-bound missiles

Thomson ReutersMay 7, 2013 11:08

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Israeli official said on Saturday that Israeli warplanes had targeted a shipment of missiles in Syria believed en route to Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon. The air strike took place on Friday after it was approved in a secret meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet on Thursday night, the official said on condition of anonymity. (Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Israeli strike in Syria targeted missiles from Iran - report

Thomson ReutersMay 7, 2013 11:08

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The air strike Israel carried out in Syria targeted a shipment of missiles from Iran bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The newspaper, citing a U.S. official, said the Israeli air force hit a warehouse on Friday at Damascus International Airport that it believed contained Fateh-110 surface-to-surface missiles made in Iran.

No early warning for U.S. on Israeli strikes in Syria

Thomson ReutersMay 7, 2013 10:58

By Tabassum Zakaria and Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States was not given any warning before air strikes in Syria against what Western and Israeli officials say were weapons headed for Hezbollah militants, a U.S. intelligence official said on Sunday. Without confirming that Israel was behind the attacks, the intelligence official said that the United States was essentially told of the air raids "after the fact" and was notified as the bombs went off.

U.S. not notified before air raids on Syria: intelligence official

Thomson ReutersMay 7, 2013 10:51

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States was not given any warning before air strikes in Syria against what Western and Israeli officials say were weapons headed for Hezbollah militants, a U.S. intelligence official said on Sunday. Without confirming that Israel was behind the attacks, the U.S. intelligence official said that the United States was essentially told of the air raids "after the fact" and was notified as the bombs went off.

Israel Syria strike targeted Iran missiles to Hezbollah: source

Thomson ReutersMay 7, 2013 10:41

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli overnight strike in Syria targeted Iranian-supplied missiles to Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, a Western intelligence source said on Sunday. "In last night's attack, as in the previous one, what was attacked were stores of Fateh-110 missiles that were in transit from Iran to Hezbollah," the source said. Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military facility just north of the capital early on Sunday. Israel declined to comment on the attack.