Barrage of Israeli assaults destroys ‘essential navy websites in Syria’
Some 250 Israeli air strikes have hit Syria in 48 hours, stories the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Israel has unleashed a barrage of aerial assaults throughout Syria, battering key navy websites amid a safety vacuum after opposition forces ousted President Bashar al-Assad.
Close to the port metropolis of Latakia, Israel focused an air defence facility and broken Syrian naval ships in addition to navy warehouses. In and across the capital, Damascus, strikes focused navy installations, analysis centres and the digital warfare administration.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a battle monitor, mentioned Israel had “destroyed a very powerful navy websites in Syria, together with Syrian airports and their warehouses, plane squadrons, radars, navy sign stations, and lots of weapons and ammunition depots in varied places in most Syrian governorates”.
Israel, which borders Syria, despatched troops right into a buffer zone on the east of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after al-Assad’s fall, in what Overseas Minister Gideon Saar described as a “restricted and momentary step” for “safety causes”. It has additionally carried out “about 250 air strikes on Syrian territory” over the past 48 hours with the goal of destroying the previous regime’s navy capabilities, in keeping with SOHR.
“Israel’s assaults on Syria are systematic,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Damascus. “They’re aiming to destroy Syria’s defence bases”.
Serdar mentioned Israel’s newest raids focused three main airports – in Homs, Qamishli and Damascus – in addition to weapons depots and different strategic navy websites.
“Israel claims it’s doing this as a result of it’s involved that these strategic services and navy gear might fall into the palms of the opposition,” mentioned Serdar.
There was no rapid response from Syria’s incoming Salvation Authorities, which al-Assad’s Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali agreed on Monday at hand energy to.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US Muslim group, blasted the US authorities for its continued assist to Israel regardless of its escalating assaults within the area, saying the “Syrian individuals need to rebuild their nation free from international occupation and violence”.
Pushing ‘past’ the Golan
The flurry of air strikes got here after Israeli troops additionally seized extra territory in a buffer zone close to the occupied Syrian Golan heights.
The incursion trampled on a 50-year ceasefire settlement with Syria, which established the buffer zone, in keeping with United Nations peacekeepers.
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara mentioned “Israel has taken the chance of Damascus being preoccupied with a change of regime to develop their presence within the Golan Heights and maybe past”.
Israel “known as it momentary, however we all know the implications when Israel says momentary,” Bishara mentioned. “Within the occupied West Financial institution, for instance, it’s been nearly six a long time”.
Whereas Syria had been at battle for greater than 13 years, the al-Assad authorities’s collapse got here in a matter of days in a lightning offensive led by the opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Syria’s parliament, previously pro-al-Assad just like the PM, mentioned it helps “the desire of the individuals to construct a brand new Syria in direction of a greater future ruled by legislation and justice”.
The Baath social gathering mentioned it’ll assist “a transitional part in Syria geared toward defending the unity of the nation”.
