Missile strike on Syria || Weekly News, 30th of March, 2019

Israeli Air Forces attacked the Syrian city of Aleppo and its suburbs, SANA agency reports. According to SANA, the targets of the attack were some buildings in the industrial zone in Sheikh Najar. Several explosions were heard near Aleppo International Airport. Syrian air defense forces located in the Aleppo area shot down several incoming missiles. According to the representative of the Syrian military command — as a result of the air raid, only material damage was taken. The buildings were destroyed, and the light was gone in the city. At the same time, the Western mass media, while citing data from the human rights organizations, reported that as a result of the air attack on Aleppo — 10 people died, some were wounded. The Israeli army refused to comment the missile attack.

Two Russian military transport aircraft landed in the capital of Venezuela, Caracas, as part of the ongoing military cooperation between the two countries — Interfax reports with a reference to the Associated Press. According to a Venezuelan official, quoted by the agency, the Russian military officials arrived to Venezuela to discuss the matters of maintenance and training of the local armed forces, as well as some strategic issues. Earlier, Latin American mass media reported that 99 Russian servicemen arrived to Venezuela, led by a high-ranking general.

On Tuesday evening, the Israeli air forces attacked HAMAS military targets in the southern Gaza Strip once again, in response to the launch of a rocket at the Eshkol Regional Council, and the border disturbances — TASS reports while referring the statement of the press service of the IDF. Earlier, the Israeli military reported that on Tuesday evening they spotted the first, after a relatively long period of silence, rocket launch from the Gaza Strip aimed at Israel. This triggered the siren alarms in the Eshkol regional council that borders the Gaza Strip.

As a result of a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip, 7 Israelis were wounded, 3 of them are children — RIA NEWS reports. The police reported that a Palestinian rocket hit a residential building in the village of Mishmeret, south-east from the city of Netanya, in the densely populated central part of Israel. Earlier, the Israeli military reported that they detected a launch of one rocket from the Gaza Strip aimed at the central part of Israel. On Sunday night, clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli military resumed along the entire eastern border of the Gaza Strip. The clashes are related to the protest actions of the ‘Great March of Return’, which has been going on for almost a year.

A group of more than 30 terrorists, involved in the demise of 3 Russian servicemen in the province of Deir ez-Zor during late February, was destroyed in Syria — the Russian ministry of defense announced on Monday. «As a result of a joint operation of the Russian Air Forces and special operations forces — a group of more than 30 terrorists, that were involved in the attack on the car with Russian military personnel, was destroyed» — the ministry said. According to the Russian military — the attack took place on the end of February. 3 Russian servicemen were on their way back after the delivery of humanitarian aid to one of the settlements in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. A group of terrorists attacked their car from an ambush. The Russian servicemen died during the attack. Constantine Reztsov, specially for ANNA NEWS.

A group of US congressmen introduced a new bill to the Senate. It bans the sale of the F-35 fighter-bombers to Turkey, unless Turkey refuses to buy the S-400 systems from Russia — Interfax reported while citing ‘The Hill’. The bill was developed by 4 senators — 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans. It says that before selling the F-35 to Turkey — the US administration should make sure that Ankara refused to buy the S-400s. In early March, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ankara will complete the deal on the purchase of the S-400s. It is assumed that the deployment of the S-400 AA systems in Turkey will begin in October of 2019.

Constantine Reztsov, specially for ANNA NEWS.