Some 250 Israeli air strikes have hit Syria in 48 hours, experiences the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Israel has unleashed a barrage of aerial assaults throughout Syria, battering key army 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 army warehouses. In and across the capital, Damascus, strikes focused army installations, analysis centres and the digital warfare administration.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a battle monitor, stated Israel had “destroyed crucial army websites in Syria, together with Syrian airports and their warehouses, plane squadrons, radars, army sign stations, and lots of weapons and ammunition depots in numerous areas 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 non permanent step” for “safety causes”. It has additionally carried out “about 250 air strikes on Syrian territory” during the last 48 hours with the intention of destroying the previous regime’s army capabilities, based on SOHR.
“Israel’s assaults on Syria are systematic,” stated Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Damascus. “They’re aiming to destroy Syria’s defence bases”.
Serdar stated Israel’s newest raids focused three main airports – in Homs, Qamishli and Damascus – in addition to weapons depots and different strategic army websites.
“Israel claims it’s doing this as a result of it’s involved that these strategic services and army gear may fall into the palms of the opposition,” stated Serdar.
There was no speedy response from Syria’s incoming Salvation Authorities, which al-Assad’s Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali agreed on Monday handy energy to.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US Muslim group, blasted the US authorities for its continued help to Israel regardless of its escalating assaults within the area, saying the “Syrian folks need to rebuild their nation free from overseas 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, based on United Nations peacekeepers.
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara stated “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 “referred to as it non permanent, however we all know the implications when Israel says non permanent,” Bishara stated. “Within the occupied West Financial institution, for instance, it’s been virtually 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, stated it helps “the desire of the folks to construct a brand new Syria in direction of a greater future ruled by regulation and justice”.
The Baath get together stated it would help “a transitional part in Syria geared toward defending the unity of the nation”.
