Israel’s PM warns Syria if rocket attacks continue

DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would “restore calm and security” to the country, after rising tensions over the last week.

The day after Israeli police stormed the prayer hall of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque — Islam’s third-holiest site — in a pre-dawn raid, more than 30 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel.

Israel then bombarded Gaza and southern Lebanon, targeting “terror infrastructures” that it said belonged to Hamas.

“We’ll reestablish deterrence, we’ll fix the damages we inherited,” Netanyahu said, adding that any enemies who see an opportunity to attack “are hugely mistaken.”

He said he cannot give details on “everything we are doing” for Israel’s security “but we are doing a lot,” noting retaliatory strikes in Syria.

“The Assad regime knows that the price we exacted is only the beginning,” the prime minister warned.