Iran: Tel Aviv will receive a crushing response

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Monday "Israel’s acts of aggression against Syria will not go unanswered and Tel Aviv will receive a “crushing response.” He called for vigilance against "Israeli plots to create instability in the region," adding, however, that “oppression and crime in the region will not endure.” Israeli aggression “is aimed at loosening the noose around the terrorists” in the eastern Ghouta region, near Damascus, state television added. 

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Israel closes air space in the North

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The Arkia airline Sunday afternoon suspended flights from Haifa to Eilat, informing travelers that the airspace of northern Israel has been closed until further notice due to the high tension on its northern borders.

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Syrian official: Israel has declared war

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Israel said to hit arms depot, first daylight images reveal

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Israel targeted Syrian air defense units as well as an arms and ammunition warehouse, Hezbollah TV station Al-Manar claimed Sunday afternoon, broadcasting the first daylight video images of the site northwest of Damascus that was hit overnight.

Israel attacked an arms warehouse in the Dimass area, 30 kilometers (18 miles) northwest of the capital Damascus, near the border with Lebanon, al-Manar reported. The video footage shows mortar shells and rockets scattered on the ground, as plumes of black smoke rise from the site amid the sound of exploding ammunition in the background.

The second site attacked by Israel, claimed the al-Manar website, was a chicken coop owned by the Syrian army, surrounded by military factories producing cement and tea. According to al-Manar, “a number” of soldiers and civilians were killed in the attack.

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Iraqi Shiite leader urges Syria to strike back at Israel

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Amid reports of a second Israeli airstrike on Syria over the weekend, an Iraqi Shiite leader on Sunday urged Damascus to retaliate against Israel and called on his followers to defend Syria’s prestige in the face of alleged Israeli aggression.

Analysts said the call by Muqtada al-Sadr was unlikely to translate into concrete action by Iraqis, but suggested that the reported Israeli strikes could provide the Shiite powers — Hezbollah and Iran in particular — with a means of turning attention away from their intervention in Syria.

“The illegal Zionist entity hasn’t ceased infringing on rights of the Arabs and Muslims in its illegal seizure of land of Palestine, nor has the Arab and Islamic stance ceased to be timid as a result of its illegal acts of aggression and crimes,” Sadr said in a statement translated by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi of the Middle East Forum.

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Haifa mayor orders preparations for possible Syrian retaliation

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Haifa’s mayor ordered the northern city to increase its preparedness and gear up to defend itself against a possible retaliatory attack after Israeli planes reportedly hit targets inside Syria twice over the past three days.

Yona Yahav held meetings in order to coordinate the city’s positions with the Home Front Command, police, fire department and MDA. Procedures for opening shelters and absorption centers were discussed as well.

The move followed the placing of two Iron Dome batteries in northern Israel by the Israel Defense Forces on Sunday, amid reports that Syria saw the strikes as a “declaration of war.”

“City Hall is a body which residents approach in case of emergency and we must prepare accordingly,” Yahav said.

Two weeks ago, the Knesset held a special meeting on protecting the city’s large chemical stores, an attack on which could lead to thousands of deaths.

Late last month, Israeli planes shot down a drone off the coast near the city, thought to have been sent by Hezbollah or Iran. Hezbollah denied sending the unmanned aircraft.

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Pro-Hezbollah TV station: Assad deploys missiles facing Israel

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In what an Israeli analyst described as “psychological warfare” by Hezbollah, a Lebanese satellite TV station claimed Sunday evening that Syria has deployed missiles targeting Israel in the wake of two Israeli strikes on Iranian missile shipments in Damascus.

The pro-Hezbollah station Al-Mayadeen quoted unnamed “high-ranking sources” saying that “Syria has placed missile batteries directed at occupied Palestine.”

The report on the station’s website also claimed that Syria was now “prepared to arm the resistance in Lebanon” — Hezbollah — “with all forms of weapons,” including “new and high-quality weapons which it has not previously provided.”

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