The UN Special Envoy for Syria called Israel on Saturday May 3 “Celer immediately” His attacks on this country, after the new strikes of the Israeli army in the night from Friday to Saturday.
“I firmly condemn the continuous and growing violations of Syria’s sovereignty by Israel, including multiple air strikes in Damascus and other cities”said Geir Pedersen in a statement, asking “Let these attacks cease immediately and that Israel ceases to endanger Syrian civilians and respects international law as well as sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and independence of Syria”.
• More than 20 Israeli strikes across Syria according to an NGO
More than 20 Israeli strikes targeted military sites across Syria on the night of Friday to Saturday, bombing “The most violent” This year said an NGO. The official Syrian agency Sana announced that a « civil » had been killed in these attacks on the outskirts of Harasta, near Damascus.
“More than 20 Israeli strikes have targeted warehouses and military sites in Deraa, near Damascus and in the Hama and Latquié regions”had announced earlier the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), which has a vast network of source in the country at war. The NGO estimated that they were “The most violent since the start of the year”.
The Israeli army has announced that it had struck military infrastructure of the new power in Syria, on the night of Friday to Saturday. In a statement, the army announced that it “Struck a military site, anti-aircraft cannons and ground-to-air missile infrastructure”without more detail. “The army will continue to act if necessary to defend Israeli civilians”she added.
-• The Israeli army says it is deployed in southern Syria in support of the Druze
The Israeli army announced on Saturday May 3, being deployed in southern Syria, saying that they are ready to intervene to “Prevent the entry of hostile forces” In the Druzes villages, after murderous clashes earlier this week between loyalist forces and members of this religious minority.
The army adds that on the night of Friday to Saturday, “Five citizens of Syrians were evacuated to receive medical care in Israel (…) after being injured in Syrian territory”. According to the Israeli army, 15 Syrian Druzes were admitted to a Safed hospital (northern Israel) to be treated after being injured in Syria since Wednesday.
According to a local Druze official in the province of Soueida, “There was no deployment of Israeli soldiers” In this area, Bastion of the Druze minority in southern Syria. “Their presence would be limited to the province of Quneitra, where they established positions after the fall of the regime [de Bachar] al-Assad » In December, he told AFP.
• 11 dead in Gaza in an Israeli strike
The civil defense of the Gaza Strip announced, on Saturday, May 3, the death of 11 people in a nocturnal Israeli strike on the Palestinian refugee camp in Khan Younès, south of the enclave.
Ours [personnes ont été tuées] Following the bombing by [l’armée israélienne] of the home of the Al-Bayram family in the Khan Younès camp ”Around three in the morning, Mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson for civil defense, added that among the eight dead already identified, all of the same extended family, was one year old girl and a one-month-old girl.
