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Israel has carried out attacks in Syria since the accidental shooting down of a Russian surveillance plane last month, Reuters news agency cited a senior Israeli official as saying on Monday.
The Sept. 17 downing by Syrian anti-aircraft fire, after Israeli jets attacked a suspected Iranian arms shipment to Syria, caused a diplomatic rift between Israel and Russia, and Moscow blamed Israel for the incident.
The Israeli official did not give details of the nature of Israel’s actions since the shooting down of the IL-20 aircraft near Latakia, in which the crew of 15 were killed, or the number of times it had attacked.
“The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have attacked in Syria, including after the downing of the Russian plane. Military coordination with the Russians continues as before,” said the senior official, who could not be named.
Israel, which has carried out air strikes in Syria many times during Syria’s seven-and-a-half-year-old civil war, said after the Sept. 17 incident it would work to improve “deconfliction” of its missions with Russian forces, but would not halt them.
Source: Reuters