Israel Conducts Airstrike into Syria

Associated Press reported that the United States and other western intelligence agencies are taking a closer look at classified information revealing that Israel may have conducted an airstrike into Syria.

The strike, which occurred in the Thursday-Friday timeframe, was apparently aiming at a suspected weapons site in the war-torn region.

Although, officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said there was no reason to believe Israel struck at a chemical storage facilities, it is also a fact that Israel had targeted weapons storage it believes are being transferred to the Hezbollah, a Lebanese-based movement.

There was no comment from the Israeli military, but the embassy spokesman Aaron Sagui said in an email to AP, “What we can say is that Israel is determined to prevent the transfer of chemical weapons or other game-changing weaponry by the Syrian regime to terrorists, especially to Hezbollah in Lebanon.”

A source in the Israeli defense establishment told a CNN correspondent, “We will do whatever is necessary to stop the transfer of weapons from Syria to terrorist organizations. We have done it in the past, and we will do it if necessary in the future.”

There was no confirmation of the airstrike from Syrian UN embassy.

Only in January, Israel hit a convoy in Syria believed to be a weapons delivery headed for Hezbollah, according to eyewitnesses in the region, and in 2007, Israel forced the Assad regime to develop an air defense system when their warplanes bombed a suspected nuclear plant in northeastern Syria.