Israel has deployed missiles in the Haifa area near the Syrian border, a move that the Tel Aviv regime claims is “routine.”
On Sunday, an Israeli Army spokesman confirmed reports that two “Iron Dome” missile batteries were moved to the Haifa area.
The official, however, insisted that the move is not due to any specific security situation but part of a routine of rotating these missile systems.
A battery of the Iron Dome missile system (foreground) is seen on March 11, 2012
The deployment came after NATO’s first Patriot missile batteries on the Turkish border with Syria became operational on Saturday.
The six missile batteries are being deployed in the southeastern cities of Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, and Adana.
The US and Germany will provide two Patriot batteries and 400 troopers each to man the missiles. The Netherlands will also dispatch 360 forces and the other two batteries. Each Patriot battery has an average of 12 missile launchers.
Meanwhile, Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom on Sunday threatened Syria with military strikes if Damascus uses chemical weapons against the foreign-backed militants.
In December 2012, Syrian Ambassador to the UN, Bashar Ja’afari said in letters to the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the foreign-backed militants could use chemical weapons against Syrians and try to shift the blame to the government.
Damascus is “genuinely worried” that Syria’s enemies could provide chemical weapons to armed groups “and then claim they had been used by the Syrian government,” Ja’afari stated.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Damascus says outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists are the driving factor behind the unrest and deadly violence.
The Syrian government has said that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and that a very large number of the militants operating in the country are foreign nationals.
Source: PressTV
Israel the perfect dictatorship.
Israel story make feel nausea, it’s so disgusting. I want to vomit. They bring out the worst feelings in me out to them. They are real poison.
Give a man power and you shall test their character…A. Lincoln
Truman supported the Israeli conspiracy. Our politicians from past to present are all rotten.
If you can take on Assad you can recover Golian Heights.
Don’t wait to long. Is now or later. Never , no. Israel will fall.
Their destructive dicks are no different than Assad dicks.
Break relations with Russia at least. Break relations with Iran, at least. Settle tough nasty conditions for the D.C. criminals.
Don’t let the politicians wreck your history of betrayal and conspiracy against your families.
Don’t settle for condemnation. Treat them like criminals. Remember, they’re highly organized criminals.
After the fall of Kaddafi the NTC bought rice from Russia.
F their rice.
Dr. Atwater
Syrian opposition reverses boycott decision
The Syrian National Coalition has agreed to hold talks in Rome after discussions with US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Aljazeera.
Your new politicians will be corrupted, they all are.
Alfredo