Late on the night of March 16, the Israeli Air Force launched an air strike campaign against the Syrian capital of Damascus. The air strike took place at 23:00 that night and was intercepted by the Syrian army with a large number of anti-aircraft missiles. The entire airstrike lasted approximately 15 minutes. At least four explosions could be heard at the scene.
Syrian anti-aircraft missile forces stationed south of Damascus intercepted, but some missiles hit their targets. The Israeli target was clearly the warehouse area of Damascus airport. In the last 48 hours, five Iranian transport planes departing from Tehran, Iran, have landed in Damascus.
Israeli intelligence had their eyes on these Iranian transport planes and after the Iranian cargo planes completed their transport mission. The Israeli Air Force immediately launched an air strike operation to conduct a precision air strike operation on the cargo that Iran had just put in place in the warehouse area of Damascus airport. Israel has always believed that Iran is using cargo planes to transport weapons such as missiles and pose a threat to Israel.
In fact, the warehouse area at Damascus Airport has been bombed by the Israeli Air Force at least a few dozen times over the years. Whenever an Iranian cargo plane unloads its cargo here, soon Israeli warplanes come in and conduct a round of air strike operations on the warehouse area.
The Syrian military disclosed that the IDF attacked a group of targets in the Damascus suburbs from the Golan Heights, conducting air strikes.
In recent years, the Israeli Air Force has fired an average of 2,000 precision-guided bombs a year at Iranian targets in Syria. And, Russia actually knows all about it because, every Time Israel launches an attack, it informs Russian forces by phone 5 minutes before the start of the battle. But only the approximate strike area is communicated, not the specific target, and at the same time, the time window left out is very small, only 5 minutes.
Iran’s airlift of weapons and ammunition, such as missiles and rockets, to Syria is done mainly by cargo planes, which are first transported to Damascus International Airport. They are then transferred from the warehouse area of Damascus International Airport to Al-Kiowa Barracks, which is also an important central transit center for Iran in Syria. Finally, the Iranians transport missile rockets from the Al-Kiowa barracks to Palestine, Lebanon, to Jehad, Hamas and Hezbollah, as required.
At the same time Iranian troops in Syria keep some of them. Meanwhile because of Israeli airstrikes and bombings day in and day out. Starting in 2019, Iran started building underground facilities at Al-Kiowa barracks to hide all missiles in underground storage.
Israel also followed the change in tactics and started bombing directly at the Damascus airport warehouse area, not even waiting to transport them to Al-Kiowa barracks again. In 2020, the Damascus airport warehouse area was hit by air strikes at least 10 times, and even Brigadier General Ali Haji Hossein, commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force in Syria, was killed.
The first air strikes on Iranian missile warehouses. Let the other side’s large number of missile rockets, still in the warehouse, have been destroyed over and over again. There was no chance to launch them. These Iron Dome things are used to deal with leakages.
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