{"id":445808,"date":"2021-04-23T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=445808"},"modified":"2021-04-23T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:21:08","slug":"israel-strikes-back-at-syria-after-missile-defense-shield-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-strikes-back-at-syria-after-missile-defense-shield-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Strikes Back At Syria After Missile Defense Shield Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-strikes-back-at-syria-after-missile-defense-shield-fails%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=445808&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3453.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Israel on Thursday retaliated against Syria, which had launched an advanced surface-to-air missile that hit in the Negev Desert.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that in response, it attacked several missile batteries in Syria, including the one that fired the missile at Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA surface-to-air missile was fired from Syria to Israel\u2019s southern Negev,\u201d the Israel Defense Forces tweeted. \u201cIn response, we struck the battery from which the missile was launched and additional surface-to-air batteries in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.333333333333\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: A surface-to-air missile was fired from Syria to Israel\u2019s southern Negev.<\/p>\n<p>In response, we struck the battery from which the missile was launched and additional surface-to-air batteries in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDF\/status\/1385020649224249345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSyria\u2019s state news agency said Syrian air defenses intercepted the Israeli attack that had targeted areas in the Damascus suburbs,\u201d The Jerusalem Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/alarms-sound-in-south-of-israel-665953\">reported<\/a>. \u201cAir defenses intercepted the rockets and downed most of them,\u201d the agency said. But four Syrian soldiers were reportedly injured in the attack and there was damage to facilities, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Syria claimed it fired the missile in retaliation for what it claims was an Israeli Air Force bombing near Damascus. Israel\u2019s attempt to intercept the missile failed. \u201cThe IDF activated its air defense systems in an attempt to intercept the missile, but the attempt failed,\u201d the Post reported. \u201cThe military is investigating why its air defenses failed to intercept the SA-5 and did not intercept the large warhead. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly reports indicated that the explosion was the result of a Patriot missile defense system battery responding to the firing of the missile into Israel. The IDF later confirmed the reports and on Thursday morning, missile parts were located in the swimming pool of the Negev community of Ashalim,\u201d said the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-news-israel-middle-east-79c9f6465155c8856fd7a077adc5978c\">Press<\/a> later said the Syrian missile was fired by accident and not aimed at Israel\u2019s top-secret nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Israeli military said Thursday that a Syrian missile that reached deep into Israeli territory and set off air raid sirens near the country\u2019s top-secret nuclear reactor was the result of a misfire and not a deliberate attack,\u201d wrote the AP. \u201cThe missile landed in southern Israel early Thursday, prompting Israel to respond with airstrikes on the missile launcher and other targets in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p>The army\u2019s chief spokesman, Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman, was quoted as telling military correspondents that the Israeli air force was already operating in Syrian airspace when the anti-aircraft missile was fired. He said the projectile, identified as a Russian-made SA-5 missile, missed its target and flew some 300 kilometers (200 miles) before exploding in southern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The missile, also known as an S200, set off air raid sirens in a village just a few kilometers (miles) from Dimona, the southern desert town where Israel\u2019s nuclear reactor is located.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no intention of hitting the nuclear reactor in Dimona,\u201d Zilberman was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The AP also claimed the Syrian attack was retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitoring group based in Britain that tracks Syria\u2019s civil war, said the Israeli strikes hit an air defense base belonging to the Syrian military and destroyed air defense batteries in the area. It said the Syrian military fired surface-to-air missiles in response,\u201d the AP wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel on Thursday retaliated against Syria, which had launched an advanced surface-to-air missile that hit in the Negev Desert.Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that in response, it attacked several &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276559,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3453.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Israel Strikes Back At Syria After Missile Defense Shield Fails","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3453.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Israel Strikes Back At Syria After Missile Defense Shield Fails","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}