“We will not tolerate attacks on Galilee communities from Lebanon. Our commitment to their security stands firm—that is exactly what will be,” Katz said.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFUpdated: MARCH 22, 2025 09:02DEFENSE MINISTER Israel Katz appears at a committee meeting in the Knesset on Tuesday.(photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)
Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Israel will respond to three rockets that were fired from Lebanon on Saturday morning.
“We will not tolerate attacks on Galilee communities from Lebanon. Our commitment to their security stands firm—that is exactly what will be,” Katz said.
“Metulla and Beirut will be treated the same. The Lebanese government is fully responsible for any fire originating from its territory. I have instructed the IDF to respond accordingly.”
His statements came after the IDF intercepted three rockets from Lebanon.
Sirens were activated in Metulla in Israel’s North as a result of the launches.
The IDF said that these targets still had strategic military capabilities at the time of the attack.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFUpdated: MARCH 22, 2025 06:29The IDF struck military targets in the city of Palmyra and at the Tiyas Air Base in central Syria on March 22, 2025 (credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit)
The IDF struck military targets in the city of Palmyra and the Tiyas Air Base in central Syria on Friday night, the military announced.
The IDF said that these targets still had strategic military capabilities at the time of the attack. The IAF had been monitoring the bases prior to the attack, and then struck the targets to continue maintaining air superiority in the region, according to Walla.
The Tiyas Air Base, which is also known as the T-4 Air Base, and Palmyra is located in Syria’s Homs Governorate.
Two personnel from the new Syrian government’s security forces were wounded in the strikes, according to Army Radio citing Syrian media.
Previous strikes on targets in Syria
Friday’s latest wave of strikes comes four days after the IDF targeted former Syrian army outposts in the central Homs province on Tuesday, which were in the villages of Shinshar and Shamsin.
Blasts from IDF strikes in Syria, February 26, 2025. (credit: SCREENSHOT/X)
The day before the strikes in the Homs province, Israeli forces targeted military infrastructure in the province of Daraa that contained weapons and military equipment from the Assad regime.
Last week, 22 IAF jets dropped over 60 bombs across targets, also in southern Syria, which included striking radars and detection equipment used to assess aerial intelligence, headquarters, and military sites that contained weapons belonging to the former Syrian regime.
Defense Minister Israel Katz had told the Post last week that the presence of Israeli forces on Mount Hermon “protects Israel from a range of Syrian, Hamas, and Iranian threats.
“There are a series of threats. This regime is a jihadist regime. It put on a mask, but then it removed its mask,” he added.
In early December, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa toppled the Assad regime, to which Israel then quickly seized a buffer zone in southern Syria as Sharaa was taking power.
Yonah Jeremy Bob, Amir Bohbot, and Reuters contributed to this report.
Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in a number of areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted by the IAF prior to crossing into Israeli territory, said the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol.
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