In response to Iranian rocket attacks on the Golan Heights on Wednesday, Israel attacked nearly all of Iran's military infrastructure inside of Syria.
Video captured one Israeli air strike on a Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile, and as one journalist put it, some nearby Syrian or Iranian troops appeared to have no idea the Israeli strike was incoming. One figure appeared to run inside the truck right before impact.
The Quds, the special forces unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, aid the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.
#BreakingFootage#Israel destroyed a freshly-delivered #Russian Pantsir-S1 / Sa-22 Greyhound system in southern #Syria, also damaging a runway.https://t.co/zlnTF86am1 pic.twitter.com/dOhm7ySFha
— Julian Röpcke (@JulianRoepcke) May 10, 2018
The Syrian or Iranian troops had no idea what was coming.
So much for the "Russian high tech". pic.twitter.com/hcKQrn8vaI— Julian Röpcke (@JulianRoepcke) May 10, 2018
#GEOLOCATED!
Mezzeh Military Airport
3.8 kilometres from #Assad's palace in Damascus!https://t.co/g0evC1NBMi pic.twitter.com/Ap5bL6KdFe— Julian Röpcke (@JulianRoepcke) May 10, 2018
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel's air force had destroyed "nearly all" of Iran's military infrastructure in Syria. The Islamic Republic and Russia are allied with the brutal Assad regime.
"If there is rain on our side, there will be a flood on their side," Lieberman said at a conference in near Tel Aviv. "I hope we have finished with this round and that everybody understood."
According to Israel, the Iranian rockets were either intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system or fell short of their intended targets. According to the New York Times, Israeli children in the Golan Heights were already going to school like normal on Thursday morning.
Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus said the Iranian attack was "commanded and ordered by (Quds Force chief General) Qassem Soleimani and it has not achieved its purpose."