DAMASCUS- The Arabic-language website of Sputnik quoted the website ofAviation Analysis Wing as reporting that the Syrian air defense unitstargeted the modern Israeli F16 fighter jet by a S-200 missile defensesystem designed in soviet era in the 1960s.

The Israeli Air Force’s F16 is a forth generation fighter jet equipped withmodern electronic system.

Field sources in Damascus province said on Saturday that the Syrian Army’sair defense units confronted the third wave of Israeli air raids in theWestern part of Damascus province.

The sources said that air defense units repelled the third round of Israeliairstrikes on army positions in al-Dimas region, tracking and destroyingthe Israeli air-to-surface missile before hitting the target on the ground.

In the meantime, the AMN reported that the Israeli Air Force fired severalmissiles at a number of military points near the occupied Golan in WesternGhouta, adding that the Syrian forces tracked two of the fired missiles.

Meantime, the Israelis claim that they halted the raids. “Our operation hasbeen terminated,” spokesman for the Israeli army announced a few minutesago.

Also, Israeli media reported that Tel Aviv called on Washington and Moscowto meddle and take control over the situation.

The Syria’s state-run SANA said that a situation of fear and anxietycovered the Northern part of occupied Palestine.

SANA reported on Saturday that the Syrian air defense units confronted thesecond raid of Israeli fighter jets in Damascus province airspace.

The news agency further quoted a military source as saying that the airdefense units repelled the Israeli jet’s fresh attack on army positions inthe Southern part of the country.

Israel’s Channel 2 also reported that the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Avivhad temporarily halted air traffic.

The Syrian military had hit at least one Israeli F-16 aircraft thatattacked positions inside Syrian territory, sending it down in flames andsmoke.

Over the past years, Israel has frequently attacked targets in Syria, oftenclaiming that it hit positions or convoys belonging to Iran. This is whileIran has no military presence in Syrian territory, only offering advisorymilitary assistance to the Syrian government fighting an all-outforeign-sponsored militancy.

Damascus stressed on Thursday that the repeated Israeli attacks on Syriaare a continuation of Israel’s aggressive approach represented bysupporting terrorist groups to prolong the crisis in Syria and to raise themorale of the terrorists.

In a letter sent to the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterresand the UN Security Council, Syria’s Foreign Ministry stressed that thecontinuation of Israel’s attacks only serves to support terrorist groupsand to prolong the crisis in Syria.

“The government of the Syrian Arab Republic reiterates its warning toIsrael on the serious repercussions of its attacks on Syria, its continuedsupport for armed terrorist organizations, and its continued occupation ofthe Arab territories, including the occupied Syrian Golan, and it holdsIsrael fully responsible for that,” it said.

It further went on to condemn the Tel Aviv regime’s latest attack in whichIsraeli aircraft launched missiles from the Lebanese airspace on an area inDamascus countryside.

The letter noted that the attack coincides with “the launching of more than1,000 rockets and mortar rounds during the past few days on neighborhoods,suburbs, diplomatic missions, service facilities, and churches in Damascusand other cities, where dozens of civilians were killed and hundreds otherswere wounded, most of them women and children.”

The letter concluded by calling on the UN and the Security Council tocondemn such actions and to take firm and immediate measures to halt thoseattacks.