{"id":184618,"date":"2020-02-07T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T11:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=184618"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T13:32:36","slug":"russia-israeli-jets-used-civilian-plane-as-shield-during-its-attack-on-damascus-countryside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=184618","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Israeli jets used civilian plane as shield during attacks on Damascus countryside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA_ The Russian Defense Ministry revealed that the Israeli enemy aircrafts, during their attacks early Thursday against some areas surrounding Damascus, used a civilian aircraft as a shield against Syrian anti-aircraft systems and endangered dozens of passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov said in a statement on Friday that a civilian Airbus-320 with 172 passengers on board was about to land at Damascus International Airport at the time when Israeli F-16 fighter jets carried out airstrikes from outside the Syrian territory on Damascus suburbs and near Damascus International Airport<\/p>\n<p>The civil Airbus-320 was forced to divert to the nearest alternative airfield and land in Hmeimim Air Base near Latakia in northwest Syria, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Konashenkov clarified that practices of Israeli General Staff in carrying out its air attacks using passenger plane to impede the work of Syrian Air Defense systems is becoming a strategy used by Israeli air force paying no heed to civilians&#8217; lives .<\/p>\n<p>Shaza\/Gh.A.Hassoun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA_ The Russian Defense Ministry revealed that the Israeli enemy aircrafts, during their attacks early Thursday against some areas surrounding Damascus, used a civilian aircraft as a shield against Syrian anti-aircraft systems and endangered dozens of passengers. Spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov said in a statement on Friday that a civilian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[15998,792,7158,21352],"class_list":["post-184618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-hmeimim-air-base","tag-israeli-attack","tag-russian-defense-ministry","tag-yrian-anti-aircraft-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}