Coming in for a landing airliner with 172 passengers almost came under fire from the Syrian army when it repelled an Israeli attack near Damascus. Eventually the Plane was taken on the Russian air base, said the official authorized the Ministry of defense Igor Konashenkov. According to the General, on Thursday after 2 o'clock in the morning, four F-16 fighter Israeli air force without entering the Syrian airspace caused sudden strike eight missiles "air - land" in the suburbs of the capital of the Arab Republic. In response to the current Syrian military used anti-aircraft missile defense systems. at this point, in the area of the international airport of Damascus to the landing came a passenger Airbus-320. As explained Konashenkov, just because of the prompt actions of dispatchers of the Moscow air port and efficient operation of automatic system of air traffic control managed to get the Airbus out of the affected area and successfully land it on the nearest alternate aerodrome - at the site-based Hamim. The General has noticed that in the world the movement of passenger flights is carried out in known high-altitude trains that radar means Israel can clearly see. He added that More distinctly Israeli radar can see the traffic situation at the airport of Damascus. "so, the Israeli General staff of military operations in the air to cover or block the retaliation of the Syrian air defense forces of civilian aircraft with passengers becoming a regular feature of the Israeli air force," - said Konashenkov. He expressed regret that "such operations by the Israeli strategists "" no respect for the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians ". A month before, eleven January, the Iranian military shot down a Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 aircraft with 176 people in the cabin. The plane flew quite close to a military target Iran in a confrontation with the United States and was taken for an enemy target. Between Syria and Israel have diplomatic relations since the establishment of both countries they are located in the state of war. For example, they have longstanding territorial conflict due to the status of the Golan heights. The Israeli military has repeatedly attacked targets in Syrian Arab Republic, explaining their actions by the desire not to allow sophisticated weapons into the hands of enemies. The 1st and foremost, the story is about the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, which is fighting in the area on the side of Bashar al-Assad and controlled by Tehran. <span style="color:darkgray