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Sign on the Beirut to Damascus highway, some kilometres
north of the border: a 2007 snap [Image Source] |
Reuters put out a report in the past hour saying Israeli forces attacked a target on the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight, quoting a western diplomat and a security source who declined to be named. Reuters' sources "
had no further information about what might have been hit or where precisely the attack happened" owing to the "
sensitivity of the issue". Reuters says this is happening at a time of "
growing concern in the Jewish state over the fate of Syrian chemical and conventional weapons". It also says the Lebanese army reported a heavy presence of Israeli jets over its territory throughout Tuesday/Wednesday night. Israeli sources, according to Reuters, said Tuesday that Syria’s advanced
conventional weapons would represent as much of a threat to Israel as its
chemical arms should they fall into the hands of Syrian rebel forces or Hezbollah guerrillas based in Lebanon. The IDF's response: “We do not comment on reports of this kind.”
The
Jerusalem Post has a similar report, quoting a western diplomat (as Reuters did) and
three regional security sources. It says Lebanon reported three overflights by Israel in its airspace during the night. The Western diplomat , asked about the strike, said "
something has happened", without elaborating.
Stay tuned.
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