The Israeli army is launching “violent bombing” in Syria

More than 20 Israeli strikes targeted military sites across Syria on the night of Friday to Saturday, the “most violent” bombings this year, said an NGO, after Israel announced a Strike near the presidential palace in Damascus.

The official Syrian agency Sana announced that a “civil” had been killed, the Israeli army confirming for its part having targeted military infrastructure near the capital of Syria, a country with which Israel is still in a state of war.

“More than 20 Israeli strikes have targeted warehouses and military sites in Deraa, near Damascus and in the regions of Hama and Lattaquié,” said the Syrian Human Rights Observatory (OSDH), which has a vast network of source in the war. The NGO said they were “the most violent since the start of the year”.

Hundreds of attacks

AFP journalists in the capital have heard the roar of planes and several detonations. Sana, who had brought back several actions near Damascus and across the country, said that “a civilian civil was killed in the Israeli aviation strikes around Harasta, near Damascus”,

Since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in December, Israel, who considers the new authorities with distrust, has led hundreds of attacks on military sites in Syria, saying that he wants to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of the new authorities which he describes as “jihadists”.

Israel also sent troops to a demilitarized area on the Golan Plateau. At dawn Friday, Israel announced that he had bombed near the presidential palace of Ahmad al-Chareh, as a warning against any damage to the Druze minority in Syria.

Warning

What the Syrian presidency described as “dangerous climbing” was also condemned by the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres. This occurred after denominational violence at the start of the week between armed groups linked to Syrian power and Druzes fighters who left more than 100 dead near Damascus and in the south, neighboring Israel, according to the OSDH.

According to independent analyst Michael Horowitz, Israel “hopes both to be local allies, particularly in the South Syrian, but also to weigh in the scale at a time when the future of Syria remains uncertain”.

“It is a clear message sent to the Syrian regime. We will not allow forces (Syrian) to be dispatched south of Damascus or threaten the Druze community in any way, “said Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and his Minister of Defense, Israel Katz.

“Playground”

Qatar has castigated a “blatant aggression against sovereignty” of Syria and Saudi Arabia “reaffirmed its categorical rejection of Israeli aggressions undergoing stability” of Syria.

“Syria should not become the playground for regional tensions” warned Germany, calling for the new Syrian power to ensure “the protection of the civilian population” and “all actors” to “the greatest restraint”. Israel had threatened to act “forcefully” if Damascus did not protect his Druze community.

Since the coming to power, on December 8, of a coalition led by Sunni Islamists, Israel has taken up the cause for the Druze of Syria. This esoteric community, from a branch of Shiite Islam, is also located in Israel and Lebanon.

In this context, Ahmad al-Chareh received Lebanese Druze chief Walid Joumblatt on Friday, who called his co-religionists in Syria on Friday to “refuse Israel’s interference”. The OSDH also reported on Friday of four Druze fighters killed during the day in a drone strike in the province of Soueïda, bastion of the Druze minority in the south, without specifying its origin.

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