Israel and Russia have agreed to coordinate military actions over
Syria in order to avoid accidentally trading fire, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Moscow.
Aljazeera has more:
Recent Russian reinforcements for Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad, which regional sources say include warplanes and
anti-aircraft systems, worry Israel, whose jets have on occasion bombed
the neighbouring Arab country to foil suspected handovers of advanced
arms to Assad’s Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
Briefing Israeli reporters after he met Russian President Vladimir
Putin on Monday, Netanyahu said he had come with the goal of
“prevent[ing] misunderstandings between IDF [Israeli army] units and
Russian forces” in Syria, where Assad is fighting rebels in a civil war.
Netanyahu added that he and Putin “agreed on a mechanism to prevent
such misunderstandings”. He did not elaborate. There was no immediate
comment from the Kremlin. In earlier remarks as he welcomed Netanyahu to
the presidential residence of Novo-Ogaryovo, outside Moscow, Putin said
Russian actions in the Middle East would always be “responsible”.
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