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With increasing Iranian involvement in Syria from 2011 onwards, the conflict shifted from a proxy war into a direct confrontation by early 2018. On several occasions, between 2013 and 2017, Israel reportedly carried out or supported attacks on Hezbollah and Iranian targets within Syrian territories or Lebanon. One of the first reliably reported incident of this kind took place on 30 January 2013, when Israeli aircraft struck a Syrian convoy allegedly transporting Iranian weapons to Hezbollah.1Habitually, Israel refused to comment on the incident, a stance that is believed to seek to ensure that the Syrian government did not feel obliged to retaliate. More incidents were attributed to IAF on May 2013 , December 2014 , April 2015 . Some of those reports were confirmed by the Syrian Arab Republic, whereas others denied.2Israel systematically refused to comment on alleged targeting of Hezbollah and Ba'athist Syrian targets in Syrian territory. In 2015, suspected Hezbollah militants launched a retaliatory attack on Israeli forces in Shebaa farms . In March 2017, Syria launched anti-aircraft missiles towards Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights, allegedly targeting Israeli IAF aircraft, which Syria claimed were on their way to attack targets in Palmyra (Syria). After the incident, the State of Israel has stated it was targeting weapons shipments headed toward anti-Israeli forces, specifically Hezbollah , located in Lebanon . Israel denied Syria's claim that one jet fighter was shot down and another damaged. Israel has not reported any pilots or aircraft missing in Syria, or anywhere else in the Middle East following the incident. According to some sources, the incident was the first time Israeli officials clearly confirmed an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah convoy during the Syrian Civil War .3As of September 2017, this was the only time such confirmation was issued. By early December 2017, the Israeli air force had confirmed it had attacked arms convoys of Ba'athist Syria and Lebanon's Hezbollah nearly 100 times during within over six years of the conflict in Syria.4In September 2018, the Israeli air force stated that it had conducted over 200 airstrikes on Iranian targets in 2017–2018 alone.5
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With increasing Iranian involvement in Syria from 2011 onwards, the conflict shifted from a proxy war into a direct confrontation by early 2018. On several occasions, between 2013 and 2017, Israel reportedly carried out or supported attacks on Hezbollah and Iranian targets within Syrian territories or Lebanon . One of the first reliably reported incidents of this kind took place on 30 January 2013, when Israeli aircraft struck a Syrian convoy allegedly transporting Iranian weapons to Hezbollah. Habitually, Israel refused to comment on the incident, allegedly so that the Syrian government would not feel obliged to retaliate.Syria confirmed some reports regarding Israeli Air Force incidents in May 2013 , December 2014 , and April 2015 , and denied others. Israel systematically refused to comment on the alleged targeting of Hezbollah and Ba'athist Syrian targets in Syrian territory. In 2015, suspected Hezbollah militants launched a retaliatory attack on Israeli forces in Shebaa farms . In March 2017, Syria launched anti-aircraft missiles toward Israeli-controlled parts of the Golan Heights, allegedly targeting Israeli Air Force aircraft, which Syria claimed were on their way to attack targets in Palmyra , Syria. After the incident, the State of Israel stated it was targeting weapons shipments headed toward anti-Israeli forces, specifically Hezbollah , located in Lebanon. Israel denied Syria's claim that one jet fighter was shot down with another one damaged. Israel has not reported any pilots or aircraft missing in Syria, or anywhere else in the Middle East following the incident. According to some sources, the incident was the first time Israeli officials confirmed an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah convoy during the Syrian Civil War . By early December 2017, the Israeli Air Force confirmed at least 100 attacks over the past six years in Syria, all targeting arms convoys of Hezbollah and the Ba'athists. In September 2018, the Israeli Air Force stated that it had conducted over 200 airstrikes on Iranian targets in 2017–2018 alone. "Syrian Revolution 12 years on | Nearly 614,000 persons killed since the onset of the revolution in March 2011 • the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" . 15 March 2023.
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Conflict resulted from the Syrian Civil War Belligerents Israel Iran Hezbollah Syria Iran-backed militias Commanders and leaders Benjamin Netanyahu (2013–2021; 2022–2024) Yair Lapid (2022) Naftali Bennett (2021–2022) Ali Khamenei (2013–2024) Hassan Rouhani (2013–2021) Ebrahim Raisi (2021–2024) Mohammad Mokhber (2024) Masoud Pezeshkian (2024) Hassan Nasrallah (2013–2024) Naim Qassem (2024) Bashar al-Assad (2013–2024) Casualties and losses 2 wounded 1,140 killed (Since April 2018) 721 killed 256 killed 53 killed 71 killed 35 civilians killed The Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war refers to the Iranian–Israeli standoff in and around Syria during the Syrian conflict. With increasing Iranian involvement in Syria from 2011 onwards, the conflict shifted from a proxy war into a direct confrontation by early 2018. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page )."Highest annual toll since beginning of escalation in 2018 | Israel attacks Syria on 76 occasions in 2023, destroying 154 targets and killing and injuring nearly 310 combatants" ."2022 | Israel attacks Syria on 32 occasions, destroying 91 targets and ki*lling and injuring nearly 235 people" ."2021 | Israel attacks Syria on nearly 30 occasions, destroying over 70 targets and killing nearly 130 people" ."SOHR exclusive | 2020: Israel strikes Syria nearly 40 times, killing some 215 members of Iranian and regime forces and proxy militias" ."On the Syrian territory between the Aprils of 2018 and 2019: Israel targets Iran and its allies the regime and Hezbollah leaving more than 232 casualties and tens of injuries" ."Syrian Revolution 13 years on | Nearly 618,000 persons killed since the onset of the revolution in March 2011" .
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