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IDF Foils Iranian Plot to Kill Israelis
(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun - Iranian officials at a luxury villa near Damascus planned an attack on Israeli targets with explosive-laden drones, an IDF spokesman said Sunday. The four-man Shi'ite militia cell, funded, trained and brought into Syria by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, was spotted on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday while attempting to carry out the attack. The IDF managed to disrupt the effort and then destroyed the drone equipment housed at a Quds Force compound in Aqraba, south of Damascus. The IDF blames the Syrian regime for allowing Iranian activity on its territory and cooperating with the Iranian militias. IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi said that "the attack we thwarted tonight was an Iranian attack from Syria's territory against the State of Israel. It was supposed to include attacks by a number of explosive-laden drones against a number of targets in the country. Qasem Soleimani personally drove the terror attack and commanded it." IDF sources said the decision to publicize its preventive attack was due to the fact that this was a specific terrorist attack rather than an attack on a military target or to prevent the transfer of weapons. "The Iranians were planning to kill Israeli soldiers and civilians with explosives on our own territory - and this is not something that we can keep quiet about," the IDF said.