(19 Feb 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem - 19 February 2023
1. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, arriving at cabinet meeting
2. Netanyahu at cabinet meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:
"Iran tries to harm Israel and its citizens relentlessly, wherever they are in the world. Iran's attacks will not discourage us. We will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and we will not allow it to entrench itself along our northern borders. We are doing everything and we will do everything to protect our citizens and we respond with intensity to the attacks against us."
4. Pan of cabinet
STORYLINE:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of his Cabinet on Sunday that Israel would continue to defend itself from what it sees as Iran's aggression.
"We will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and we will not allow it to entrench itself along our northern borders," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu's remarks came after Syrian state news reports that Israeli airstrikes have targeted a residential neighbourhood in central Damascus.
There has been no immediate statement from Israel on the attack and Netanyahu did not mention the strikes directly in his remarks.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, but rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations.
Israel has acknowledged, however, that it targets bases of Iran-allied militant groups, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.
Syrian state media agency SANA, citing a source in the Damascus police command, has reported that at least five people were killed and 15 wounded.
Loud explosions were heard over the capital around 12:30 a.m. local time, and SANA reports that Syrian air defences were “confronting hostile targets in the sky around Damascus.”
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