Netanyahu Goes to Underground Bunker for Session

Date: 23 May 2018 - 21:10

News ID: ۵۳۳۲۴

AL-QUDS (Dispatches) -- The occupying regime of Israel’s security cabinet, a forum of senior ministers headed by Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu, has begun holding its weekly meetings in a secure underground bunker in occupied Jerusalem Al-Quds, Israeli revealed.
The facility, known as the "national management center”, was first used by the security cabinet in 2011 to rehearse a crisis scenario. It was carved out beneath the regime complex in occupied Al-Quds and includes living quarters as well as command facilities.
Israeli media said reports of the move come amid a rise in tensions with Iran.
The Zionist regime this month accused Iran of firing rockets from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and used it as a pretext to carry out what it called its heaviest airstrikes in Syria since the start of the Syria war in 2011.
According to Russia's Defense Ministry, Israel used 28 warplanes in the attack and fired 70 missiles. Both Damascus and Moscow said the Syrian army had managed to shoot down more than half of the missiles.
Israel has stepped up its attacks on Syrian military positions in what is considered an attempt to prop up terrorist groups that have been suffering heavy losses and retreating on multiple fronts, most recently from their strongholds in Damascus suburbs.
The Zionist regime has been acting as a de facto air force of the militants for some time but its extensive raids on May 10 were its most brazenly direct engagement in Syria's fight on terrorism.
Meetings of the council, hitherto mostly at the prime minister’s office in the occupied Jerusalem Al-Quds, are already generally held out of the public eye.
"Cabinet ministers have told us that one of the main reasons for the move is Netanyahu’s wish to try even harder to prevent leaks and because of fears of spying attempts by hostile foreign parties,” Israel’s Channel 10 said.
The group of 11 ministers has already held a small number of meetings at the facility, and three planned weekly sessions, the next of which is scheduled for Wednesday, will be held in the bunker, a media source said.
Using Lebanon’s airspace, the Zionist regime has attacked the Syrian soil on many occasions since 2011, when the Arab country found itself in the grips of a devastating foreign-backed militancy.
The attacks are mostly conducted against targets belonging to the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah, which has been helping Damascus against foreign-backed terrorists.
A senior diplomat said on Saturday Damascus views any Israeli attack on Syria an act of "aggression" and will confront it.
"Syria has its own sovereignty. Any outside aggression against the Syrian territory is an aggression,” Syrian Ambassador to Moscow Riad Haddad told reporters in the Russian city of Sevastopol.
"Our forces, including the air defense, protect the Syrian sky and land. We will repel any aggression against Syria, regardless where it will take place," he added.