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Operation Mole Cricket 19 (Hebrew: מבצע ערצב-19, romanized: Mivtza ʻArtzav Tsha-Esreh) was a suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) campaign launched by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) against Syrian targets on June 9, 1982, at the outset of the 1982 Lebanon War.
The IDF halted traffic at the Masnaa Border Crossing between Syria and Lebanon by striking "vital transportation infrastructure" using two missiles. The IDF had alleged that the border crossing was being used by Hezbollah for transferring weapons from Syria to Lebanon one day prior to the strike. [229]
According to the IDF, the target of the raid, codenamed "Deep Layer", was an underground precision-guided missile facility used by Iran to manufacture weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria, and other Iranian proxies. [10]
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and ...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel would "destroy heavy strategic weapons throughout Syria, including surface-to-air missiles, air defense systems, surface-to-surface missiles ...
This became the Red Line Agreement, which entailed three things: 1) Syria's army would not cross a certain line into South Lebanon, 2) Syria's army would not use surface-to-air missiles in Lebanon, 3) lastly, the Syrian army would not use its air force on Lebanese Christians. [26]
SA-17 surface-to-air missile system, similar to the one allegedly targeted by the attack SA-8 surface-to-air missile system, similar to ones shown on a Syrian television footage broadcast. The attack consisted of about ten jets, flying from the Mediterranean over southern Lebanon. The jets were tracked by both NATO and Lebanese radars.
The IDF halted traffic at the Masnaa Border Crossing between Syria and Lebanon by striking “vital transportation infrastructure” using two missiles. The IDF alleged that the border crossing is used by Hezbollah for transferring weapons from Syria to Lebanon one day prior to the strike. [281] Hezbollah said that it targeted Haifa using ...