Damascus - New satellite images of an Iranian weapons storehouse at the Damascus International Airport showed the complete destruction of the site following Israeli airstrikes on Friday.

A side-by-side comparison released by the Israeli satellite company ImageSat International shows a photo taken December 23 of a 20x50 meters structure alongside a photo taken on Monday January 14, in which three craters can be seen where the compound once stood.

According to ImageSat, the structure was likely used as a missile storehouse, including for the Fajr-5, which can be launched from a mobile platform and has a reported range of 75 kilometers.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Sunday that the airstrike was carried out by the Israeli Air Force on Friday, saying that Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks against Iranian and Hezbollah targets.

“The accumulation of recent attacks proves that we are determined more than ever to take action against Iran in Syria,” Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.

On Monday Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi denied that Tehran had any military bases or military presence in Syria, rebuffing claims made by Netanyahu and former IDF Chief of Staff Lt.Gen.(res) Gadi Eisenkot that Israel has struck hundreds of Iranian targets in Syria over the past two years.

“The Zionist War Ministry’s comments are baseless, false, misleading, and is an attempt to justify their ongoing failures in the region,” Qasemi was quoted as saying by Iran’s official news agency, IRNA. He added that “the Zionists always spread lies and embark on psychological warfare to achieve their evil goals in the region. Iranian officials are in Syria strictly for consultation purposes. The Syrian government invited us in order to advise them on methods to fight terrorism.”

At the ceremony marking the appointment of incoming IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi Tuesday morning, Netanyahu warned Tehran to leave Syria.

“I’m telling you, get out of there fast. We won’t stop attacking,”he said.

Syria’s SANA state news agency said Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus area on Friday, triggering Syrian air defenses that shot most of them down. Read more at JPost