Israel intensifies attacks in Syria after Assad’s fall

Israel’s armed forces have launched around 480 attacks across Syria in the past two days, according to a statement from the country’s army. The Zionist movement occurs after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad and directly attacks Syria’s right to national sovereignty.

The Israeli Air Force conducted approximately 350 manned aircraft strikes targeting airfields, anti-aircraft batteries, missiles, drones, fighter jets, tanks and weapons production sites in Damascus, Homs, Tartus, Latakia and Palmyra, the Defense Forces said. of Israel (FDI) this Tuesday (10).

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also ordered his soldiers to advance beyond the Golan Heights, Syrian territory occupied by Israel since the 1970s, to the demilitarized zone between the Golan and the rest of Syria.

Multiple reports in the Arab media indicated that Israeli tanks crossed the border at night and arrived close to Qatana, a city 25 km from Damascus.

The UN special envoy for Syrian affairs, Norwegian Geir Pedersen, said the airstrikes “must stop” and that there was a violation of the 1974 agreement that gives a peacekeeping force jurisdiction over the demilitarized zone.

“We continue to see Israeli movements and bombings in Syrian territory. This has to stop,” insisted the UN envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen.

Israel understands Assad’s fall as an effect of its actions against Iran and its allies. That is, not only the violent campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza, but also the regular bombings against Lebanon and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia supported by Iran, and their open attacks and secret espionage actions against the Iranian regime itself.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday that the fall of Assad in Syria is part of a joint plan hatched between the United States and Israel. In its first statement after the fall of the Syrian regime, Iran’s highest political and religious authority guaranteed that it had “proof of this conspiracy”.

Khamenei also stated that “a country neighboring Syria played a clear role” in these events, in an apparent reference to Turkey, which supports part of the militias involved in the victorious offensive.

The forces that took power seek to calm international fears. HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, also known as Ahmed al-Sharaa, said in an interview with Sky News on Tuesday that the country was “exhausted” from war and would not return to one.

“Syria will be rebuilt. The country is moving towards development and reconstruction. It is heading towards stability,” al-Jolani said.