(Homs) On Tuesday morning (31/03/20) the IDF carried out an
airstrike on al-Shayrat air base. It’s
situated right at the top end of the Bekaa valley and is used as a forward
operating base by Hezb-allah for the movements of terrorists into Syria and the
movement of Iranian weapons into Lebanon.
Now on Tuesday evening an aircraft had just delivered its latest shipment of what was presumed to be weapons when 2 flights of Israel F16s (3 to each flight) decided to target the airbase with cruise missiles. Whilst the Syrians reported (as usual) that they shot down all the incoming missiles, videos on social media have shown explosions on the ground.
As mentioned the Syrians usually love to parrot to the world that their wonderful air defence system worked far better than expected and then bleat to the UN about the nasty jew next door, But this time they have been somewhat reticent .This thread from my (B) account is about tonight's airstrike of #Israel Air Force at #IRGC targets in al-Shayrat/#T4 Air Base in #Homs, #Syria 6hrs ago. It was carried-out in 2 waves each one with three F-16D/Is. Target was a weapon shipment + a structure.https://t.co/Npg2jeWkbH pic.twitter.com/uc9OYeUnT2— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) April 1, 2020
Now news is coming out of Syria, that the plane which landed
didn’t just drop off weapons, it also unloaded Iranian General Ismail Qaani. -who replaced Iranian General Soleimani after he had a very unfortunate
mishap with a American Hellfire missile- who was in town to host a meeting with
senior Syrian, Hezb-allah and Iranian officers . Until the Iranian terrorist
enabler turns up for a photo shoot we will never know.