SitiWanMahani - Laporan letupan di pangkalan tentera Syria telah
mendorong spekulasi mengenai serangan baru Israel ke atas Syria. Pegawai Israel
tidak akan mengesahkan laporan bahawa jet mereka yang dijalankan serangan.
Balai Cerap Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia berkata
letupan itu berlaku di pangkalan udara Syria di Lataika di pantai
Mediterranean. Seorang pegawai pentadbiran Obama mengesahkan serangan itu
berlaku dalam sekelip mata pada hari Khamis tetapi dengan syarat tidak ada
butiran .
Seorang lagi pegawai keselamatan berkata, sasaran itu
peluru berpandu buatan Russia. Pegawai-pegawai bercakap dengan syarat tidak
mahu namanya disiarkan kerana mereka tidak diberi kuasa untuk membincangkan
secara terbuka menyerang.
Serangan itu berlaku pada masa yang sama bahawa
pemeriksa antarabangsa mengu-mumkan bahawa mereka telah selesai merombak kimia
kemudahan pengeluaran senjata Syria.
Utusan PBB Lakhdar Brahimi telah Damascusto cuba
untuk mendapatkan sokongan untuk goyah rundingan damai untuk menamatkan perang
saudara Syria di mana lebih daripada 100,000 orang telah dibunuh
Pada hari Rabu dia bertemu dengan Presiden Bashar al-Assad
yang memberitahunya bahawa rundingan untuk menghentikan konflik hanya akan
berjaya jika kuasa-kuasa asing berakhir sokongan untuk pemberontak berjuang
untuk menggulingkan beliau.
Explosion
prompts speculation of Israeli attack on Syria
Reports of an explosion at a Syrian military base
have prompted speculation of a new Israeli attack on Syria. Israeli officials
would not confirm a report that their jets carried out a strike.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the
explosion took place at the Syrian air base in Lataika on the Mediterranean
coast. An Obama administration official confirmed the attack happened overnight
on Thursday but provided no details.
Another security official said that the target was
Russian-made missiles. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because
they were not authorised to publicly discuss the attack. The attack happened at
the same time that international inspectors announced they had finished
dismantling Syria's chemical weapons production facilities.
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been in Damascusto try
to shore up support for faltering peace talks to end Syria's civil war in which
more than 100,000 people have been killed
On Wednesday he met President Bashar al-Assad who
told him that negotiations to stop the conflict would only succeed if foreign
powers ended support for rebels fighting to overthrow him.
Keganasan
maut di sempadan Israel dgn Gaza berhampiran terowong baru-baru ini ditemui
SitiWanMahani - Pertempuran meletus di sempadan Israel dengan Gaza
lewat pada hari Khamis sebagai tentera Israel telah menjalankan apa yang ia
katakan adalah operasi pertahanan terhadap ditemui baru-baru konkrit yang
dibarisi, terowong batu-panjang dari Gaza ke Israel.
Tentera Israel berkata, militan merancang untuk
menggunakan terowong untuk menye-rang atau menculik Israel. Pada tahun 2006,
militan Hamas bersekutu menyelinap ke Israel melalui satu terowong itu,
membunuh dua askar Israel dan menculik yang ketiga, dia memegang tebusan di
Gaza selama 5 tahun.
Sekurang-kurangnya 3 militan Palestin terbunuh
keganasan Khamis, berkata pemerintah wilayah Hamas. Hamas berkata kereta-kereta
kebal Israel telah memasuki Gaza sebelah sempadan. Pertempuran meletus sebagai
militan melepaskan tembakan peluru mortar di tangki. Hamas berkata, sebuah
helikopter Israel melepaskan roket di kawasan itu.
Jurucakap tentera Israel berkata, tentera telah
menjalankan “tindakan menentukan” di kawasan terowong di Gaza tetapi tidak
mempunyai maklumat lanjut.
Deadly
violence on Israel's border with Gaza near
recently discovered tunnel . . .
Clashes broke out on Israel's border with Gaza late
on Thursday as the Israeli army was conducting what it said was a defensive
operation against a recently discovered concrete-lined, mile-long tunnel from
Gaza into Israel.
The Israeli military said militants planned to use
the tunnel to attack or kidnap Israelis. In 2006, Hamas-allied militants
sneaked into Israel through one such tunnel, killed two Israeli soldiers and
kidnapped a third, holding him hostage in Gaza for five years.
At least three Palestinian militants were killed
Thursday's violence, the enclaves Hamas rulers said. Hamas said the Israeli
tanks had entered the Gaza side of the border. Clashes erupted as militants
fired mortar shells at the tanks. Hamas added that an Israeli helicopter fired
a rocket in the area.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said forces were
carrying out "a pinpoint action" in the area of the tunnel in the
Gaza Strip but did not have further details.
