Syria: Israel Seizing Opportunity of Al-Assad’s Fall to Harness Territories

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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Israel’s strikes targeted military sites in Damascus and its countryside.

“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, it 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 war monitoring group.

Israel air strikes on Friday targeted “a missile base at the top of Damascus’s Mount Qasyun”, the group said, as well as an airport in southern Sweida province and “defence and research labs in Masyaf”, in Hama province.

Since al-Assad’s fall, Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against Syrian military sites, targeting everything from chemical weapons stores to air defences.

Reports from Damascus says Israeli air strikes that shook the Syrian capital on Friday night targeted the headquarters of the army’s fourth division and a radar battalion in the nearby countryside.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Damascus and other towns and cities across the country on Friday to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

New satellite images appear to show Russia’s military packing up equipment at Khmeimim airbase in Syria’s Latakia province, though Russian media reports that Moscow has made contact with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) opposition group and is seeking to maintain its bases in the country.

The Arab League has condemned Israel’s grab for Syrian land in the buffer zone between the two countries.
Jordan is scheduled to host an emergency summit on Syria, which will be attended by top diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Turkiye, the US, the European Union and the UN.