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TERROR IN SAMARIA: Manhunt underway for a 23-year-old Muslim terrorist resident of an Arab village near Tulkarem. The terrorist had a permit to work in the area. He arrived at one of the factories in the Barkan industrial area, went up to the 2nd floor, opened fire with a rifle murdered 2 Israelis, injured another one, and fled the scene of the terror attack. https://wp.me/p9XqAk-nRU
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched ballistic missiles into eastern Syria, targeting terrorists the force blames for a recent attack on a military parade. 1 of the missiles was marked with “Death to America, Death to Israel, Death to Al Saud”. https://wp.me/p9XqAk-nNp
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Russia on Monday for talks focused on Syria, warning that Israel will not accept Iran’s growing military presence there and in neighbouring Lebanon.
Before departure for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Netanyahu said that Iran is trying to turn Lebanon into “one giant missile site, a site for precision missiles against the state of Israel, which we will not tolerate.”
Netanyahu also pointed at “Iran’s relentless efforts to establish a military presence in Syria, which we strongly oppose and are also taking action against.”
“Israel will not accept the presence of precision missiles. If we need to act in Lebanon, we will act,” he told journalists at the conclusion of the meeting earlier with Putin.
The Israeli premier also said he discussed with Putin Iranian entrenchment in Syria. “We are now on the cusp of a watershed moment of whether Iran will entrench itself there or if the process will be stopped. I told Putin that if it isn’t stopped by itself, we will act to stop it. In practice, we’re already operating,” he told the journalists.
Netanyahu also addressed reports that Damascus had threatened to attack Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport if Israel carried out another military strike in Syria.
“We always take all the elements and considerations in the area into account,” he said, before accusing Iran of attempting to rattle stability in the Middle East.
“The element currently trying to change the status quo in Syria and Lebanon is one—Iran. This is an element that is actively trying to shift the arena and turn Syria into a military colony,” he asserted.
Another major topic discussed at the meeting with Putin was, Netanyahu said, the Iranian nuclear agreement. The prime minister raised before Putin Israel’s reservations, “which in many cases are reservations I have heard from Trump. I cannot guarantee what Russia’s stance will be on the matter, but they understood what will happen if corrections are not inserted (into the deal.)”
“I think that the main lesson of the rise of the Nazis and—afterwards—their defeat, is that one needs to take a strong and timely stand against murderous ideologies,” Netanyahu told Putin during a meeting at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.
“We will stand before them [Iran] with all our might,” Netanyahu said. “There will not be another Holocaust.”
Some 145-150 ISIS terrorists were eliminated in a “precision strike” on a headquarters of the terror group in eastern Syria, the coalition announced Tuesday evening.
The strike hit an ISIS headquarters and command and control center near As Shafah, in the Euphrates River valley, about 20 kilometres from the Syria-Iraq border.
The “heavy concentration of ISIS terrorists appear to have been massing for movement,” the coalition stated in their published announcement.
“The strikes underscore our assertion that the fight to liberate Syria is far from over,” said Maj. Gen. James Jarrard, commanding general of the coalition’s special operations task force.
Coalition allies the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) assisted in “target observation prior to the strikes,” the statement confirmed.
“Our SDF partners are still making daily progress and sacrifices, and together we are still finding, targeting and killing ISIS terrorists intent on keeping their extremist hold on the region. We cannot take our focus off our mission, and we must not lose our momentum in taking these terrorists off the battlefield and preventing them from resurfacing somewhere else,” said Jarrard.
Earlier in the day, US Defence Secretary James Mattis criticized Turkey’s military offensive against Kurdish forces of the SDF in Afrin as a distraction from the war on terror.
“The violence in Afrin disrupts what was a relatively stable area of Syria. It distracts from international efforts to ensure the defeat of ISIS, and this could be exploited by ISIS and Al-Qaeda,” he said, urging everyone to remain focused on the war against ISIS.
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