The defense establishment is taking seriously Iran's recent threats to respond to an attack in Syria on Wednesday that was attributed to Israel.
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On Wednesday, pro-Iranian militias inside Syria explicitly threatened a "harsh response" to the attack in a statement issued by the joint operations room of organizations operating inside Syria.
In the statement, the militias claimed four armed members of their organization were killed and several others were wounded in an Israel Defense Forces attack on the Homs region.
According to their statement, which appeared in the Hezbollah-aligned news site Al Mayadeen, the attack was launched from the Jordan-Iraq-Syria border triangle region controlled by the US. It targeted a militia recruitment site as well as other facilities used by the organizations in the country's east.
Meanwhile, the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria Thursday evening reported that four Israeli F-16 fighter jets had carried out the attack adjacent to the city of Palmyra.
According to the Russian center, the Russian military chose not to use anti-aircraft missiles to thwart the attack due to the presence of two civilian planes, one flying to Beirut from Baghdad and another flying to Damascus, and Syrian concerns those aircraft might be hit in an attack.
The attack in Syria comes just one week before Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi to discuss diplomatic and security-related issues, among other things.
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