Residents of Damascus, Syria, was startled by a loud bang that sounded on Sunday (05/05/2013) morning. According to the Israeli government television, the explosion came from the Syrian military research center targeted Israeli air strike.

Residents of Damascus, Syria, was startled by a loud bang that sounded on Sunday (05/05/2013) morning.

According to the Israeli government television, the explosion came from the Syrian military research center targeted Israeli air strike.

Syrian state television reported that the Israeli attack on at 1:50 on Sunday morning, the research center is located in Jamraya.

"Everything is quiet and all of a sudden we saw a bright orange light in the sky followed by a tremendous explosion," said resident Damascus, Tarek Hillnawi, who was talking with her ​​friend when the explosion occurred.

"I felt it was all over. Whole Damascus burning," he said.

Earlier, the Syrian news agency, SANA, reported that Israel was to attack the center of Damascus, but no human casualties reported in the attack.

Previously, Israel was also reportedly attacked a convoy allegedly transporting weapons to be sent to a group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

However, so far, the Government of Israel has not confirmed or denied it had launched air strikes into Syrian territory.


The Government of Israel, Saturday (04/05/2013), confirming the country's air force has attacked Syria. This statement corroborate previous reports that the U.S. posted a variety of media.

Air strikes against Syrian targets the delivery of rockets to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Similarly, a number of Israeli officials such as broadcast television station Al Arabiya.

Meanwhile, Lebanese security sources told Reuters kepara Israeli air force activity increased during Thursday and Friday.

Lebanese suspect Israeli warplanes was watching the possible deployment of weapons from Syria to Lebanon, most likely to Hezbollah, an ally of Iran and Assad.

"We believe the increase in activity related to delivery of the Israeli air force weapons, particularly chemical weapons from Syria to its allies in Lebanon," said the official who declined to be named.

Meanwhile, a Syrian rebel commander said Qassim Saadedine Israeli attack targeted a convoy of the carrier rocket being sent to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

"We received information that there had been an attack on the convoy of Israeli weapons shipments to Hezbollah. However, we have not got the information site of the attack," said Saadedine based in Syrian-Turkish border.

The attack was the second Israeli air strike into Syrian territory in this year. In April Israeli air attack that also targeted a convoy of suspected arms shuttles will be sent to Hezbollah.


UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a new release until now, Lebanon accommodate 453,000 Syrian refugees. This figure, wrote the AP on Saturday (05/04/2013), up 9,000 people than a week ago.

Then, out of that number, 343,000 refugees registered with UNHCR. Then, another 110,000 are still waiting completeness of the data to obtain the status of "refugee".

The majority of the refugees, sheltered in camps northeastern Lebanon. In Beirut and surrounding areas, the number of refugees who are accommodated reached 48,000 inhabitants.

Lebanon, at this time, asking for international assistance to support the lives of the refugees. There is already a demand for 370 million U.S. dollars to the Arab countries for this purpose, the UN special envoy to Lebanon Derek Plumbly