Netanyahu admits Israel hit Hezbollah-bound arms in Syria

Netanyahu admits Israel hit Hezbollah-bound arms in Syria

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aboveboard accepted Monday for the aboriginal time that Israel had attacked dozens of convoys alteration weapons in Syria destined for the Jewish state's arch-enemy Hezbollah.

It was the aboriginal bright accessible accepting by the Israeli arch that the country had agitated out attacks in neighbouring Syria with which it is still clearly at war.

In December, Netanyahu told reporters Israel did "everything to anticipate weapons, decidedly baleful ones, getting confused from Syria to Lebanon" area the Shiite Hezbollah is based.

"We occasionally backpack out operations in Syria to anticipate that country from acceptable a foreground adjoin us," he said at the time, but after elaborating.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured on April 10, 2016, accepted that the country had agitated out attacks in neighbouring Syria with which it is still clearly at war

Several raids targeting convoys of weapons destined for Hezbollah accept been abhorrent by media in Syria and Lebanon on Israel, area the authorities accept been tight-lipped.

But on Monday, while visiting troops on the Israeli-occupied allotment of the Golan Heights, Netanyahu accepted such attacks had taken place, his appointment said.

"We act if we accept to act, including here, on the added ancillary of the frontier, with dozens of strikes aimed at preventing Hezbollah from accepting weapons that could adapt the antithesis of power," he said.

Several sources say that Israel, which is clearly aloof in the battle that has raged beyond Syria back 2011, has launched added than a dozen air strikes there back 2013.

These accept mainly targeted the alteration of accoutrements destined for Hezbollah, which has beatific armament to Syria to action alongside President Bashar al-Assad's troops adjoin rebels.

In the summer of 2006, Israel and Hezbollah fought a adverse war in Lebanon that dead about 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and about 160 Israelis, mostly troops.

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