<span style="color: #222222;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that Israel carried out an air strike in Syria at the weekend. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In a cabinet meeting today, he said that Israel's air force attacked Iranian warehouses containing weapons in the Damascus international airport. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to the Syrian air defences, only a ministry of transport warehouse at Damascus airport was hit. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Israel has pledged to prevent Iran from entrenching itself militarily in Syria, where it is backing President Bashar al-Assad's regime. </span>