Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) attends a meeting in Tel Aviv on June 2, 2013.<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged that the Tel Aviv regime\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s warplanes have carried out a number of secret operations over the past year.\n<\/p>\n
Addressing a group of Israeli military graduates on Thursday, Netanyahu said, \u00c5\u201cIn the last year, in a number of theaters, we acted, sometimes openly and sometimes secretly, and we achieved our goals,\u201d the Times of Israel<\/i> reported.\n<\/p>\n
According to the report, the vague statement may refer to a number of aerial assaults conducted by Israeli warplanes on the Syrian soil.\n<\/p>\n
On May 5, the Israeli military launched an air raid on the Jamraya Research Center in a suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus, for the second time in three days following heavy losses inflicted upon al-Qaeda-affiliated militants by the Syrian army. The location had been targeted in another Israeli airstrike in January.\n<\/p>\n
The Tel Aviv regime also violates Lebanon\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s airspace on an almost daily basis, claiming the flights serve surveillance purposes.\n<\/p>\n
Netanyahu also responded to former chief of Israeli spy agency Mossad Meir Dagan, who had scolded the premier for not acting on his threats.\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cWhoever needs to know that we don\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t only talk, but also act, knows,\u201d Netanyahu said in response to Dagan\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s remark, that \u00c5\u201cwhen you have to shoot, shoot, don\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t talk.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On June 26, Netanyahu said military maneuvers in the occupied Golan Heights may be put into practice in the near future unlike the past \u00c5\u201ctheoretical\u201d drills. Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Moshe Ya\u00e2\u201e\u00a2alon also cautioned that the military combat units may be called up on short notice.<\/p>\n
MKA\/HSN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n