JERUSALEM: Israel’s prime minister says the strike on Iran’s military installations inside Syria sent a “clear message” to President Bashar Assad not to attack Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday in a statement that “we are in a continuous campaign” and that “Israel’s military had carried out very extensive strike against Iranian targets” in Syria.
Netanyahu said Syrian batteries fired at Israeli forces “and therefore we struck them.”
He warned “whoever attacks us — we will attack them sevenfold and whoever prepares to attack us — we will act against them first.”
The prime minister issued the statement as Israel’s security cabinet was meeting, according to media reports.
Israel said the targets of the strikes, its largest in Syria since the 1973 war, included weapons storage, logistics sites and intelligence centers used by elite Iranian forces in Syria.
