Photos: Israel targets weapons in airstrike on Syria
May 6, 2013
An Israeli soldier walks away from an Iron Dome rocket interceptor battery deployed near the northern Israeli city of Haifa May 5, 2013. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday voiced alarm at reports Israel has struck targets inside Syria, but said the United Nations was unable to confirm whether any such attacks had taken place. REUTERS/Baz Ratner ( SYRIA-CRISIS/UN )
Damage is seen in what appears to be a chicken farm following an air strike near Damascus May 5, 2013, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. Israel carried out its second air strike in days on Syria early on Sunday, a Western intelligence source said, in an attack that shook Damascus with a series of powerful blasts and drove columns of fire into the night sky. Israel declined comment but Syria accused the Jewish state of striking a military facility just north of the capital - one which its jets had first targeted three months ago. SANA said Israeli aircraft struck in three places: northeast of Jamraya; the town of Maysaloun on the Lebanese border; and the nearby Dimas air base. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Damage is seen in what appears to be a chicken farm following an air strike near Damascus May 5, 2013, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. Israel carried out its second air strike in days on Syria early on Sunday, a Western intelligence source said, in an attack that shook Damascus with a series of powerful blasts and drove columns of fire into the night sky. Israel declined comment but Syria accused the Jewish state of striking a military facility just north of the capital - one which its jets had first targeted three months ago. SANA said Israeli aircraft struck in three places: northeast of Jamraya; the town of Maysaloun on the Lebanese border; and the nearby Dimas air base. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Damage is seen in what appears to be a chicken farm following an air strike near Damascus May 5, 2013, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. Israel carried out its second air strike in days on Syria early on Sunday, a Western intelligence source said, in an attack that shook Damascus with a series of powerful blasts and drove columns of fire into the night sky. Israel declined comment but Syria accused the Jewish state of striking a military facility just north of the capital - one which its jets had first targeted three months ago. SANA said Israeli aircraft struck in three places: northeast of Jamraya; the town of Maysaloun on the Lebanese border; and the nearby Dimas air base. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
An Iranian demonstrator holds a picture of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an anti-Israel demonstration in front of the UN office in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 6, 2013. Iran Condemns Israeli Air strikes on Syria and urged countries in the region to stand against the attack. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) ( Mideast Iran Syria Protest )
Jordanian activists hold a Syrian flag as they shout slogans against Israel during a protest to show their support to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and condemning an air strike in Syria, near the Israeli embassy in Amman May 5, 2013. Israel carried out its second air strike in days on Syria early on Sunday, a Western intelligence source said, in an attack that shook Damascus with a series of powerful blasts and drove columns of fire into the night sky. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed ( SYRIA-CRISIS )
Iranian and Syrian students chant slogans during an anti-Israel demonstration in front of the UN office in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 6, 2013. Iran condemns Israeli air strikes on Syria and urged countries in the region to stand against the attack. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) ( Mideast Iran Syria )
An "Iron Dome" short-range missile defense system is pictured near the northern Israeli city of Haifa on May 5, 2013. Israel carried out a pre-dawn air strike near Damascus, targeting Iranian missiles destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah in the second such raid on Syria in three days, a senior Israeli source said. AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images ( 519503237 )
A Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade take part in an exercise near the border with Syria on May 6, 2013 at the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Syria has accused Israel of launching a series of airstrikes on targets near the Lebanon/Syria border, including an arms shipment and the Jamraya research centre, that was thought to produce chemical weapons. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 168162973 )
A Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade take part in an exercise near the border with Syria on May 6, 2013 at the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Syria has accused Israel of launching a series of airstrikes on targets near the Lebanon/Syria border, including an arms shipment and the Jamraya research centre, that was thought to produce chemical weapons. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 168160195 )
A Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade take part in an exercise near the border with Syria on May 6, 2013 at the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Syria has accused Israel of launching a series of airstrikes on targets near the Lebanon/Syria border, including an arms shipment and the Jamraya research centre, that was thought to produce chemical weapons. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 168162966 )
A used ammunition is seen on the ground, as Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade exercise, not pictured, in the Golan Heights , Monday, May 6, 2013. Israel's weekend airstrike on a military complex near the Syrian capital of Damascus killed dozens of Syrian soldiers, a group of anti-regime activists said Monday, citing information from military hospitals. The Syrian government has not released a death toll, but Syrian state media have reported casualties in Sunday's pre-dawn airstrike, Israel's third into Syria so far this year. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ( Mideast Israel Syria )
Peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) monitor the Lebanese-Israeli border at a point overlooking an Israeli settlement, in southern Lebanon on May 6, 2013. A senior Israeli source said the strikes against Syria, carried out earlier in the week, targeted weapons destined for Lebanese group Hezbollah, which is allied with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. STR-/AFP/Getty Images ( 519507748 )
Israeli soldiers walk past signs pointing out distances to different cities at an observation point on Mount Bental in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights May 5, 2013.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday voiced alarm at reports Israel has struck targets inside Syria, but said the United Nations was unable to confirm whether any such attacks had taken place. REUTERS/Baz Ratner ( SYRIA-CRISIS/UN )
U.N. peacekeepers drive past Lebanese, Palestinian and Hezbollah flags on the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border near the northern Israeli town of Metula May 5, 2013. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday voiced alarm at reports Israel has struck targets inside Syria, but said the United Nations was unable to confirm whether any such attacks had taken place. REUTERS/Baz Ratner ( SYRIA-CRISIS/UN )
Israeli soldiers receive a briefing at an observation point on Mount Bental in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights May 5, 2013.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday voiced alarm at reports Israel has struck targets inside Syria, but said the United Nations was unable to confirm whether any such attacks had taken place. REUTERS/Baz Ratner ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
An Israeli soldier places a flag close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights May 6, 2013. Israel sought to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that its recent air strikes around Damascus did not aim to weaken him in the face of a more than two-year-old rebellion. REUTERS/Baz Ratner ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ISRAEL )