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Israel Launches Airstrikes on Iranian Targets in Syria

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   The Israeli military says its warplanes struck dozens of Iranian and
   Syrian military targets outside of Damascus Wednesday in retaliation
   for a rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights the day
   before.

   The military says the targets, including surface-to-air missiles,
   weapons depots and troop headquarters, belonged to Iran's elite Quds
   force, the overseas arm of the regime's Revolutionary Guards.

   Syria's state-run media said two civilians were killed in the
   airstrikes, but the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
   says it has learned that 11 people died in the strikes.

   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement Wednesday
   that he has "made clear that whoever hurts us, we will hurt them."

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