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| New Israeli strikes said to target Syrian military sites, underground missile bunkers, 60 more Sat.evening |
| 2024-12-15 |
| [IsraelTimes] No immediate confirmation from Israel, which is trying to stop Assad’s strategic weapons from falling into hostile hands; Syria protests to UN against IDF presence in buffer zone Israel launched a series of strikes early Saturday targeting military sites in Damascus and its countryside, including rocket depots buried deep under a mountain, a Syrian war monitor said, in the latest such raids since rebels brought down Bashir al-Assad almost a week ago. Earlier in the week Israel launched a major operation to destroy the Syrian military’s strategic military capabilities, including chemical weapons ...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... , missiles, air defenses, air force and navy, in a bid to prevent them from falling into the hands of hostile elements. The early Saturday strikes appeared to be aimed at completing the effort. There was no immediate comment from the IDF, though earlier in the week it said it had so far destroyed some 80% of Syrian capabilities and would continue to act. "Israeli strikes destroyed a scientific institute" and other related military facilities in Barzeh, in northern Damascus, and targeted a "military airport" in the capital’s countryside, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. Strikes also targeted "Scud ballistic missile warehouses" and launchers in the Qalamun area, as well as "rockets, depots and tunnels under the mountain," according to the Britannia-based Observatory, which has a network of sources inside Syria. The Observatory said several rounds of strikes targeted "military sites of the former regime forces, as part of destroying what is left of the future Syrian army’s capabilities." SOHR, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale. Israeli ... KABOOM!... s on Friday targeted "a missile base at the top of Damascus’s Mount Qasioun," the group said, as well as an airport in southern Sweida province and "defense and research labs in Masyaf," in Hama province. Israel feared that following the collapse of the Assad regime, the former Syrian army’s weapons could fall into the hands of hostile forces in the country, as well as the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel said its airstrikes would carry on for days, but told the UN Security Council that it was not intervening in Syria’s conflict. It said it had taken "limited and temporary measures" solely to protect its security. Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... Syria’s representative at the UN called on the Security Council to take action to compel Israel to immediately stop its attacks on Syrian territory and withdraw from the buffer zone. In identical letters to the council and Guterres obtained Friday by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, Syria’s UN Ambassador Koussay Aldahhak said he was acting "on instructions from my government" in making the demands. It appeared to be the first letter to the UN from Syria’s new interim government. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... Aldahhak represented Assad and the letters were filed with the symbol of the former regime. The letters were dated December 9, days after rebels ousted president Assad and ended his family’s more than 50-year authoritarian rule of Syria. "At a time when the Syrian Arab Republic is witnessing a new phase in its history in which its people aspire to establish a state of freedom, equality and the rule of law and to achieve their hopes for prosperity and stability, the Israeli occupation army has penetrated additional areas of Syrian territory in Mount Hermon and Quneitra Governorate," ambassador Aldahhak wrote. Israel controls and annexed the Golan Heights that it captured from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War. The Disengagement Agreement of 1974 between Israel and Syria established a demilitarized buffer zone between the two countries, monitored by a UN peacekeeping force known as UNDOF. In a letter to the Security Council circulated Friday which was also written on December 9, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon said his country had taken "limited and temporary measures," deploying troops temporarily in the separation area "to prevent gangs from threatening Israeli territory." Group claims there have been dozens of Israeli strikes on Syria in a few hours [IsraelTimes] Israel has launched more than 60 strikes on Syrian territory in few hours, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims. Israel fired 61 missiles at Syrian military sites in less than five hours Saturday evening, it reports, maintaining a campaign which started after rebel forces toppled president Bashar al-Assad nearly a week ago. Jerusalem says the campaign is needed to prevent the Assad regime’s extensive military arsenal from falling to jihadist rulers who could use them against Israel or to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon. SOHR, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale. |
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