Israel has launched lots of of strikes throughout Syria following the autumn of the Bashar al-Assad regime final December.
Six Syrian military officers have been killed in Israeli drone strikes south of Damascus, Syria’s state-run El Ekhbariya TV reported, a day after Syria condemned a new Israeli “military incursion” exterior the capital.
Israeli drones focused Syrian military positions within the Damascus countryside close to town of al-Kiswah, the broadcaster reported early on Wednesday.
Following the autumn of the Bashar al-Assad regime final December, Israel has launched lots of of strikes concentrating on navy websites and belongings throughout Syria.
Israel additionally expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarised buffer zone, a transfer that violated a 1974 disengagement settlement with Syria.
Syria’s Ministry of International Affairs mentioned on Monday that Israel had despatched 60 troopers to take management of an space contained in the Syrian border round Mount Hermon, close to a strategic hilltop that overlooks Beit Jinn, near the border with Lebanon in southern Syria. Israel didn’t instantly touch upon the accusation.
Syrian Minister of International Affairs Asaad al-Shaibani accused Israel of building intelligence services and navy posts in demilitarised areas to advance its “expansionist and partition plans”.
Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared his imaginative and prescient for a “Greater Israel“, an idea supported by ultranationalist Israelis that lays declare to the occupied West Financial institution, Gaza, and elements of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan.
A coalition of 31 Arab and Islamic international locations and the Arab League mentioned the stance was a “blatant and dangerous violation of the foundations of worldwide regulation and the foundations of secure worldwide relations”.
The most recent Israeli navy motion in Syria follows lethal clashes within the Druze-majority Syrian province of Suwayda, the place every week of sectarian violence in July killed 1,400 individuals, earlier than a ceasefire put an finish to the bloodshed. Israel had carried out strikes on Syrian troops and bombed the heart of the capital, Damascus, underneath the pretext of defending the Druze individuals.
