As Jihad Watch reported yesterday, in a troubling turn of events that highlights Iran’s escalating determination and aggression, the Israeli Defense Forces thwarted an Iranian “killer drone” attack. That attack was targeting the Golan Heights. The IDF captured on video “Iranian forces in Syria preparing to launch an explosives-laden drone into northern Israel from Syria.”
Israeli forces in the Golan Heights are now “on continued high alert.” The Golan Heights cannot be surrendered by Israel, given its strategic location for the safety of the entire nation. Also, more than a third of Israel’s water supply comes from the Golan Heights. An Israeli military spokesman, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, said “Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Al Quds force, working with allied Shiite militias, had been planning to send a number of explosives-laden attack drones into Israel.”
The leader of the Iranian proxy Hizballah, Hassan Nasrallah, stated that “two Lebanese nationals had been killed in the Israeli strike, which he said targeted Hezbollah positions.” Nasrallah also stated that it was “the first since the two sides fought a brief war 13 years ago.”
While Israel protects its country’s existence and its citizens, its retaliatory and preventative strikes are labeled “aggressions” by jihadist propagandists.
IDF intelligence can now release the surveillance footage of Iranian Quds Force operatives in Syria carrying a killer drone that they intended to use for an attack on Israel.
How do you foil an attack of killer drones?
Killer intel. pic.twitter.com/5bgMvW61nr
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) August 25, 2019
“WATCH: Video Shows Iranian Forces Prepping ‘Killer Drone’ Launch Targeting Israel,” by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, August 25, 2019:
TEL AVIV – The IDF spokesperson’s unit on Sunday released a video of Iranian forces in Syria preparing to launch an explosives-laden drone into northern Israel from Syria last Thursday.
The video, captured by an Israeli field intelligence unit along the border, shows four fighters from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds force carrying the UAV through a field to its planned launch point located in the southern Syrian village of Arneh.
Iran attempted a second time to carry out the same attack on Saturday night, the army said, prompting a retaliatory strike by Israel.
The plan to attack was orchestrated by the IRGC’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, the IDF chief of staff said.
The Iranian fighters intended to target northern Israel with the attack drones, each of which was packed with “several kilograms of explosives,” IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus said earlier in the day.
The IDF monitored the Iranian plot for “a number of weeks,” Conricus said.
On Saturday around 11pm, Israel Air Force jets struck Iranian targets in the Syrian town of Aqraba, south of Damascus, thwarting the “imminent” UAV attack, the army said. According to war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, five personnel were killed in the strikes, two of whom were operatives for the Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah and one a member of an Iranian militia. The other two have not been identified.
“The Israeli raids targeting Iranian and Hezbollah posts … in the southeast of Damascus killed at least three people — two from Hezbollah and a third who was Iranian,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
“The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days,” the IDF said in a statement….
The Syrian army said that “the majority of the Israeli missiles were destroyed before reaching their targets,” but Conricus maintained that the damage caused by the Israeli strikes was “significant,” Reuters reported.
A senior official in Tehran denied that Iran’s facilities had been targeted, saying Israel didn’t have the “power” to do so….
Walter Sieruk says
The Iranian drown attack was thwarted and, of course, that is a very good thing.
Iran’s mullah president is a strong supporter of that violent and murderous jihad entity Hezbollah with member with Islamic daydream and fantasy of destroying replacing her with an Islamic “state” are as dangerous and violent as they are also deluded wicked and irrational .
So much so that those jihadists of Hezbollah s are much like the characters in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. This reads “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.”
Likewise, those Hezbollah jihadists of their scheming and malicious and deadly and they, in many ways , the same as those anti-Israel violent men described in Psalm 83:2-4 . Which reads “See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads. With cunning, they conspire against your people: they plot against those you cherish. ‘come’ they say , ‘let us destroy them as a nation ,so that Israel’s name is remembered no more…’ Further in this very same chapter in verses 16 -18 it is also written. “Cover their faces with shame, Lord so that they will seek your name. May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord – that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” [N.I.V.]
Iran’s president and mullah backs Hezbollah, therefore he and the members of that jihad entity are the real losers
Rarely says
Nice work IDF.
gravenimage says
Thwarted Iranian “killer drone” attack targeted Golan Heights, IDF releases video of Iranian forces preparing drone
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Bravo Israel for thwarting this attack on their people. It won’t be the last from Iran and the other murderous Muslims, though.
Avenger says
More like IDF propaganda. A killer drone carried in one arm by a 122lb Iranian Hezbollah Terrorist. Right. That might destroy one Israeli beekeepers honeybee hive.
Israel is still trying to bring down the Assad government and is grasping at straws for any excuse to bomb Syrian infrastructure. NATO and the US did the same to Serbia at the request of the Sauds and Turks during the Kosovo campaign.
Angemon says
Ah, I was wondering who would take on CB’s duties of defending Iran and rambling about Israel during his absence… Well, at least you acknowledge Hezbollah is a terror group – comrade CB won’t be pleased…
Giacomo Latta says
These terrorists come from the same terrorist pool as those who throw rocks across the border at Israelis. I doubt seriously if any of these are members of the Revolutionary Guard. So if you are wondering what these less-than-bright lights are hoping to accomplish then you now know why.
gravenimage says
*Of course* Avenger is enraged that his pals the Mullahs didn’t get a chance to murder any Jews.
And Angemon is right that christianblood won’t like Hezb’allah being referred to as terrorists. He doesn’t consider Jihad against the Jews to be terror.
gravenimage says
Here’s something else to piss off Avenger:
“Israeli strike in Syria thwarted ‘imminent’ jihad attack by Iranian drones”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/08/israeli-strike-in-syria-thwarted-imminent-jihad-attack-by-iranian-drones
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
As offensive military technology continues to transfer to the Moslems, the prospects for freedom decline. And worse, the process is abetted by their oil money and and subsidies of Infidel taxpayer money.