Tel Aviv. Iran has intensified its efforts to get ready to use its proxies in the West Asia to strike Israeli targets.

On January 6 the Israel air force has deployed an Iron Dome air defence system in Eilat, the Israeli town on the Red Sea.

Intelligence reports indicated the plan of Iran affiliated terror cells operating in the Sinai peninsula to hit targets in Israel.

And on January 6 an alleged Israeli airstrike destroyed Iranian related targets in Syria.

According to the report from Damascus the weapon systems used were launched from the Golan Heights, in a stand off type used in earlier strikes.

The opposition-affiliated Halab Today TV reported that over five strikes targeted sites near the First Division of the Syrian military in the Al-Kiswah area, south of Damascus. The Syrian News Agency reported that the strikes also targeted Iranian militia sites in Al-Dimass, located west of Damascus near the Lebanese-Syrian border, and Sahnaya, located south of Damascus.

This is the third alleged Israeli strike on targets in Syria in the past two weeks.
Last week one soldier was killed and three were wounded in an airstrike targeting Al-Zabadani, located near the Lebanese-Syrian border and just north of Al-Dimass.

Al-Zabadani is considered by Israel a major route used to transfer weapons sent through Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

-The writer is an Israel-based freelance journalist