Israeli television reported that the air strike on Syria on Saturday was aimed at Iran’s attempts to introduce “game-changing” air defense systems into Syria. And according to what the Times of Israel website quotes from Jewish Channel 12: “The location of the morning strike on the Syrian city of Hamidiya, near the port of Tartus, suggests that it was aimed at weapons that were delivered by sea. , possibly using Iranian ships docked at the port last week.

The channel pointed out that “the strike came against the backdrop of a new step by the Iranians in Syria to implement an air defense system to protect their military interests,” explaining that “this new effort” is being led by a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. in cooperation with the Syrian army to enable Tehran to use its own air defense systems in Syria.

The network named “Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer” Farid Mohammad Saqai, stating, “It’s not a coincidence that his name is being published now,” without any details about the whereabouts of the officer’s published name, nor any other information about his rank and position. And the Syrian news agency SANA reported that the Israeli army “carried out an air attack on Saturday morning with several rockets, hitting several poultry farms in the vicinity of the city of Hamidiya, south of Tartus.”