Israel strikes Syria again with high tensions

Israel has conducted new air strikes in the raids of the Syrian coast and land coast in the south of the country, which is part of a modern wave of attacks that Israel says is necessary for its security and that sparked tensions with the new government in Syria.

The strikes seem to be the latest attempt to maintain weapons from the ousted Assad regime from the hands of groups that may be hostile to Israel.

The Israeli army said on Monday evening that it had targeted an arms storage facility in Qarra, the birthplace of former President Bashar al -Assad. The city is a few miles away from a The main Russian air baseBy the coastal city of Latakia. There were no immediate reports on injuries, according to the Syrian government news agency, SANA.

Hours later, the Israeli army conducted ground raids to two cities in southern Syria, cut roads and search for military barracks before bombing warehouses and withdrawal, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war control group in Britain.

The attacks came a week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Israel to “complete full cosmetic” for many southern Syria “from the new regime forces.”

Since the Assad regime Dropped In December, Israel carried out a terrible rebel attack Hundreds of air strikes In Syria, it says it aims to prevent weapons in what he considers hostile hands.

He – she It also deployed the forces In a decorated area of ​​others on its borders with Syria, the border villages invaded in southern Syria, describing these moves as temporary measures to protect their security. Many Syrians are afraid The incursions can turn into a long military occupation.

The temporary president of Syria, Ahmed Al -Sharra, has released his strongest condemnation so far from Israel at an Arab summit in Cairo on Tuesday, accusing a country that violated the rights of Syrians for decades. He said that Syria has been committed to a ceasefire with Israel, which was signed in 1974, a deal that Mr. Netanyahu said “collapsed” in the wake of the fall of the Assad regime.

A number of countries condemned the incursion of the Israeli army in southern Syria and the United Nations He said in January “Regional integrity and unity must be restored.”

After violence erupted between Syrian government officers and armed men on the outskirts of Damascus last week, Mr. Netanyahu said that he ordered the army to defend a minority in the country from the new rulers in Syria, A step by the Syrians and the government leaders themselves.

Mr. Shara has repeatedly said that Syria does not seek to conflict with Israel. in The “National Dialogue” conference for two days In Damascus last week, which was described as the beginning of an operation to build a comprehensive Syrian government, the closing statement refused to threaten Israel that it would not allow the presence of the Syrian armed forces in the south of the country.

However, it is still unclear how Syria’s leadership will respond to the Israeli demand to remove weapons in the region.