{"id":347746,"date":"2018-02-11T04:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T03:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israeli-f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-under-syrian-anti-aircraft-fire-amid-idf-cross-border-raid\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T04:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T03:42:38","slug":"israeli-f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-under-syrian-anti-aircraft-fire-amid-idf-cross-border-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israeli-f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-under-syrian-anti-aircraft-fire-amid-idf-cross-border-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli F-16 Fighter Jet Crashes Under Syrian Anti-Aircraft Fire Amid IDF Cross-Border Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>An Israeli F-16 fighter jet crashed after Syria responded with anti-aircraft fire to an Israeli operation in its territory. Syria says its military base came under Israeli fire, and it hit multiple aircraft in response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMassive Syrian Anti-Air fire, one F16 crashed in Israel, pilots safe,\u201d IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intercepted an Iranian UAV, which crossed from the territory of Syria into Israel. In response, the Israeli military attacked Iranian positions in Syria. The operation triggered anti-aircraft fire by Syrian forces.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/foKWUkZMIqU\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli \u201caggression\u201d targeted an army base in the central region of Syria, Sana reported, citing a military official, who also said that Syrian air defenses struck more than one jet. The Israeli military denied that: \u201cThey all returned safely, except for one that crashed in Israel,\u201d Conricus said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>IDF has targeted the Iranian control systems in Syria that sent the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAV<\/a> into Israeli airspace. Massive Syrian Anti-Air fire, one F16 crashed in Israel, pilots safe. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> is responsible for this severe violation of Israeli sovereignty. Event ongoing, more to follow.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Jonathan Conricus (@LTCJonathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LTCJonathan\/status\/962191487806201856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently holding security consultations and approving the necessary actions in real time following the incidents, official Israeli sources told Haaretz.<\/p>\n<p>Images emerged online purporting to show the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/israeli-f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-under-syrian-anti-aircraft-fire-amid-idf-cross-border-raid\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli F-16 fighter jet crashed after Syria responded with anti-aircraft fire to an Israeli operation in its territory. Syria says its military base came under Israeli fire, and it hit multiple aircraft in response. \u201cMassive Syrian Anti-Air fire, one F16 crashed in Israel, pilots safe,\u201d IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus said on Twitter. The incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}