by Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
Israel has targeted Iranian-backed Shiite militias from Afghanistan and Pakistan, brought in to Syria to attack Israel and "convert" Syria's Sunni majority, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says, warning of "endless upheaval and terrorism in many, many countries."
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Homeland Security Forum
conference in Jerusalem, Thursday
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Israel
has attacked Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim militias in Syria, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, casting such actions as
potentially helping to stem a Syrian Sunni Muslim refugee exodus to
Europe.
Israeli officials have previously disclosed
scores of airstrikes in Syria to prevent suspected arms transfers to
Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah fighters or to Iranian military deployments,
who have been helping the Syrian regime beat back the seven-year-long
rebellion.
But Israel has rarely provided official details on the operations, or described non-Lebanese militiamen as having been targeted.
Speaking at the International Homeland
Security Forum in Jerusalem on Thursday, Netanyahu accused Iran of
bringing in 80,000 Shiite fighters from countries including Pakistan and
Afghanistan to mount attacks against Israel and "convert" Syria's Sunni
majority.
This is "a recipe for a re-inflammation of
another civil war – I should say a theological war, a religious war –
and the sparks of that could be millions more that go into Europe and so
on," Netanyahu said.
"And that would cause endless upheaval and
terrorism in many, many countries. Obviously, we are not going to let
them do it. We'll fight them.
"By preventing that – and we have bombed
the bases of these Shiite militias – by preventing that, we are also
offering, helping the security of your countries, the security of the
world."
Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/06/14/netanyahu-iran-has-brought-80000-shiite-fighters-into-syria/
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