Report: Syrian government confirmed attacks in Golan Heights

The concern of combustion at the northern border of Israel has not yet faded: TV channel Al - Ahbariah, which is affiliated with the regime of President Bashar Assad, reported over yesterday that administration officials gave a 'green light' to military response against Israel. According to the report, a senior official confirmed to Syrian factions to hit the "occupied Golan Heights."

Lebanese media reported that the Lebanese army greatly raised alert along the border with Israel. The reports stated that UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon are on high alert. Sometime before that, Lebanon news agencies reported that air force planes are circling over Lebanon.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Syria will not sit idly by in the attacks on its territory and respond to Israel with a "crushing gut." He said the "Zionist regime must understand the atrocities it performed in Syria will not remain unanswered." Deputy Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Masoud Jaziri denied that the structures which Israel bombed in Syria contained Iranian missiles.

The newspaper A - Rai which appears in Kuwait, reported this morning that Assad sent a message to Israel through Moscow, in which he warns that any further attack in Syria will be considered a declaration of war. According to the report, Assad said that he deployed surface - surface and ground - air batteries intended to strike at Israeli targets. Soldiers stationed at the batteries received explicit instructions to operate without additional guidance in the event of an Israeli attack.

Meanwhile, an Israeli official told Reuters, that Israel made it clear to Assad that its attacks were not intended to weaken him in his war against the rebels, which is a Syrian internal issue – in which Israel does not intend to intervene. According to the source, which asked to remain anonymous, Israel refuses to take sides in the civil war in Syria for fear that it might actually increase the power of those Islamists hostile to Israel even more than the incumbent president.

Conflicting versions on the number killed in the attack

Yesterday it was decided to limit flights in the northern airspace until Thursday because of the tension. However, the Northern Command announced this morning that the airspace is expected to reopen in the next few hours for civilian flights.

IDF seek to lower the flames in the north. Commander of Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, spoke this morning for the first time of the tension, saying that there is no fear of a war with Syria. "Alongside readiness and alertness in the north, it is always right to prepare and train, but there are no winds of war, and the traditional enterprise of the Golani Brigade is conducting as usual," said Golan during the Golani race held today.

Meanwhile, according to Syrian human rights organization affiliated with the rebels, 15 Syrian soldiers were killed in the second attack in Syria, and dozens of other people still are listed as missing. Reported by AFP news agency.

A senior officer in the Syrian army, said this morning that dozens of Syrian soldiers were killed in the Air Force attack near the presidential palace of Assad. A doctor at a military hospital said that at least 100 were killed and dozens injured.

U.S. intelligence officials told Reuters that Washington did not know about the attack before it took place in Syria, and was told only after it happened. With respect to Israel, the official said: "It would not be unusual on their part to take aggressive steps when there is a chance of sophisticated weapons systems would fall into the hands of organizations like Hezbollah."

A senior official at a military facility bombed in Syria yesterday said in an interview with Russian RT that Israel used a new type of weapon, "The giant golden mushroom of fire that appeared teaches us about using diluted uranium shells."

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