Press TV - Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says the downing of an Israeli F-16 fighter jet by the Syrian air defense systems will establish new rules of engagement with the Tel Aviv regime�s acts of aggression.
�What happened is larger than a battle and a little less than a war. It will create new balances and rules of engagement in the region,� Lebanon�s Arabic-language daily�newspaper al-Joumhouria�quoted Berri as saying on Monday.
He added, �This event is the first of its kind in tens of years. However, no escalation is expected. Things will end here; they will not develop into an all-out war.�


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri speaks at a news conference in Ain al-Tineh, Lebanon, on May 29, 2017. (Photo by the Daily Star newspaper)[/caption]
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Ezzedine�al-Qassam�Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Hamas resistance movement,�praised Syria�s downing of an Israeli F-16 warplane�as �an important and heroic response� to the Tel Aviv regime�s years of aggression.

Abu Obeida stated on Monday that the incident dealt a heavy blow to the Israeli air force.


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Hamas resistance movement (Photo by Palestinian Safa news agency)[/caption]
�We should fully support this pioneering move,� he said, calling for �further attacks on the Israeli enemy in a bid to clip its wings and deter its aggression against Arab and Muslim nations.�
On Saturday, Syria�s state television, citing an unnamed Syrian military official, reported that air defense systems had struck at least one intruding Israeli F-16 fighter aircraft.

The official added that the aircraft had targeted a Syrian army base in the central region of the country, and that more than one Israeli warplane had been shot down.

A pro-government military alliance in Syria said in a statement that Israel would see a severe and serious response to its "terrorism" from now on.



Hamas has announced in a statement that its fighters and the Palestinian nation stand by Syria in the face of Israel�s latest act of aggression against the Arab country plagued with foreign-sponsored militancy.

�We commend the Syrian response to the Israeli aggression. We affirm that Palestine stands by Syria in the face of this hostile move,� Ismail Radwan, a senior official of the�movement, said in an exclusive interview with Arabic-language Quds Press International News Agency on Saturday.

He also condemned Israeli attacks on Syria, stressing that Damascus had the right to self-defense against Israeli assaults.