{"id":589086,"date":"2026-08-19T03:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589086\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:40:18","slug":"israel-acknowledged-the-strike-on-a-syrian-air-base-after-criticism-from-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589086\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel acknowledged the strike on a Syrian air base after criticism from the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel carried out a strike on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase near Aleppo in northwestern Syria, after which the United States called the attack an &#8220;unnecessary escalation.&#8221; CNN reports, according to UNN.<\/p>\n<p>Details<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the strike and said it was prompted by the threat of a possible deployment of Turkish troops at the base. According to him, Israel had previously warned Syria that such a presence would pose a threat to its security.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bodyLinkItem\" href=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/en\/news\/israeli-strike-on-the-gaza-strip-kills-six-people\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip kills six people19.08.26, 01:56 \u2022 1422 views<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"quoteContent\" style=\"text-align:left\">Israel has repeatedly warned Syria that such a deployment would pose a threat to Israel&#8217;s security. Israel will not tolerate threats to its security and will welcome a return to the status quo<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<p>The United States criticized the strike even before the Israeli prime minister&#8217;s statement. U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said Washington was &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; about the attack and called on the parties to avoid further military incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Syria officially have no diplomatic relations, but negotiations on security between the countries are continuing with the mediation of Donald Trump&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bodyLinkItem\" href=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/en\/news\/eight-muslim-countries-condemned-israels-rejection-of-the-us-plan-for-gaza\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eight Muslim countries condemned Israel\u2019s rejection of the U.S. plan for Gaza17.08.26, 00:37 \u2022 13991 view<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel carried out a strike on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase near Aleppo in northwestern Syria, after which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-589086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}