{"id":15671,"date":"2018-12-28T04:09:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T04:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15671"},"modified":"2018-12-28T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T04:10:10","slug":"russia-syria-threaten-to-strike-israel-if-air-raids-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/russia-syria-threaten-to-strike-israel-if-air-raids-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Syria Threaten to Strike \u00abIsrael\u00bb If Air Raids Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A new Russian threat was received in the \u201cIsraeli\u201d entity on Wednesday: Any more air strikes and Syria\u2019s SA-5 air defense missiles will be fired deep into the \u201cIsraeli\u201d entity \u2013 like the one that shook several towns on Tuesday night in the middle of an \u201cIsraeli\u201d Air Force [IAF] attack on Iranian sites in Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By issuing this threat, Moscow confirmed that the Syrian missile was aimed deliberately at the \u201cIsraeli\u201d heartland, and was not a stray from the attacks on \u201cIsraeli\u201d aircraft, as some \u201cIsraeli\u201d officials have claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Settlers in \u201cIsraeli\u201d settlements of \u201cHadera\u201d, \u201cCaesarea\u201d, \u201cOr Akiva\u201d, \u201cZichon Yacov\u201d and \u201cBinyamina\u201d reported that their houses shook under the blast and for many hours the air reeked of gunpowder. A quarter of a million \u201cIsraelis\u201d were affected. That would be a mild foretaste of what is to come if the Russians carry out their threat of payback for any more \u201cIsraeli\u201d air strikes over Syria. And that was a single SA-5 missile. The impact of five or 10 fired by a Syrian battery does not bear thinking of.<\/p>\n<p>The SA-5 (Russian coded S-200) is elderly but it has a very long range, medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air capacity, can function in all weathers and can be used to hit ground targets as well as aircraft and missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsraeli\u201d military sources note that the Russians indicated that Syria would not launch a surface missile offensive against the entity but would employ a tit-for-tat strategy, countering \u201cIsraeli\u201d air strikes over Syrian air space with missile attacks over \u201cIsraeli\u201d air space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Russian threat was received in the \u201cIsraeli\u201d entity on Wednesday: Any more air strikes and Syria\u2019s SA-5 air defense missiles will be fired deep into the \u201cIsraeli\u201d entity \u2013 like the one that shook several towns on Tuesday night in the middle of an \u201cIsraeli\u201d Air Force [IAF] attack on Iranian sites in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15673,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15671\/revisions\/15673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}