Israel strikes Syria’s Latakia: Report
An Israeli strike has targeted an air defence installation near Syria’s Mediterranean Latakia port, Reuters reports, quoting unnamed Syrian security sources.
The Israeli army has carried out more than 100 strikes on Syrian territory since the fall of the al-Assad regime, including on its capital, Damascus.
Large wave of Israeli strikes against Syrian air bases: Report
We’ve been replaying reports from the ground that air strikes had targeted bases near Damascus, Syria. Now, Reuters news agency, citing two unnamed Syrian security sources, says Israeli planes bombed at least three major Syrian army air bases that housed dozens of helicopters and jets.
This is the biggest such wave of strikes on air bases since Bashar al-Assad was toppled, the security sources told Reuters. Qamishli air base in northeast Syria, Shinshar base in the countryside of Homs and Aqaba airport southwest of the capital Damascus were all hit, the sources said.
Israel has also launched several strikes on a research centre on the outskirts of Damascus and a centre for electronic warfare near the Sayeda Zainab area of the capital.
Israel has just told the United Nations that it is involved in “limited” actions in Syria after the fall of al-Assad. Since yesterday, Israel has taken over a buffer zone next to its occupied land in the Golan Heights and carried out dozens of strikes against Syrian territory.
Israeli strikes in Syria ‘limited and temporary’: UN ambassador
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations told the UN Security Council that deployments of Israeli troops into Syrian-controlled areas of the occupied Golan Heights were “limited and temporary measures”.
“I addressed the Security Council and clarified that in response to the developing security threat on the Syrian-Israeli border and the danger it poses to our citizens, we have taken limited and temporary measures,” the ambassador, Danny Danon, wrote on X.
“I emphasised that the State of Israel does not intervene in the conflict between the rebels in Syria. Our actions focus solely on maintaining our security and we are committed to the framework of the Separation of Forces Agreement signed in 1974 between Syria and Israel.”
Israeli forces have reportedly also bombed weapons depots in southern Syria and in the capital Damascus.
What are Israel’s plans in Syria and claims by far-right ministers to Damascus?
As the Assad government falls, Israel seizes more territory in Syria’s Golan Heights. That move tears up a 50-year-old agreement. But Israeli far-right ministers say their country’s borders should extend further – to Damascus.
So what are Israel’s plans in Syria?
Israel’s Golan Heights seizure ‘sabotage’ to Syria security: Saudi officials
Saudi Arabia’s ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned Israel’s land grab in the Syrian-controlled areas of the occupied Golan Heights.
In a statement posted on X, Saudi officials wrote that “the attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation government through seizing the buffer zone in the Golan Heights, and the targeting of Syrian territories by the Israeli occupation forces, confirm Israel’s continued violation of the rules of international law, and its determination to sabotage Syria’s chances of restoring its security, stability, and territorial integrity.”
A UN-monitored buffer zone separates Israeli-occupied territory from the remaining part that is still under Syria’s control. In 1981, Israel formally declared its annexation of the Golan Heights, but the United States is the only country that has recognized it, in 2019, under former President Donald Trump.
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