The occupying Zionist entity carries out greater than 100 airstrikes in Syria, report says

Syrian media report that Israeli warplanes have carried out dozens of assaults throughout the nation, together with on the capital Damascus.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stated there had been greater than 100 strikes towards army targets.

A analysis middle suspected of being linked to the manufacturing of chemical weapons was among the many websites affected, in keeping with native media.

The occupying Zionist entity says it’s performing to stop weapons from falling “into the arms of extremists” after the overthrow of the Assad regime.

In the meantime, the UN Safety Council meets to debate the state of affairs within the nation following the autumn of President Bashar al-Assad.

The SOHR says there have been tons of of Israeli airstrikes over the previous two days, together with on a web site in Damascus believed to have been used for rocket improvement by Iranian scientists.

The strikes come because the UN chemical compounds watchdog warns Syrian authorities to make sure the safety of suspected chemical weapons stockpiles.

In response to the UN's chemical watchdog, the Group for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a chemical weapon is a chemical used to deliberately trigger dying or hurt by its exterior poisonous properties.

Using chemical weapons is prohibited by worldwide humanitarian legislation, whatever the presence of a sound army goal, as a result of the results of those weapons are inherently indiscriminate.

It’s unclear the place or what number of chemical weapons Syria has, however former President Bashar al-Assad reportedly stored stockpiles and his assertion was incomplete.

Syria signed the OPCW chemical weapons certificates in 2013, a month after a chemical weapons assault on the suburbs of the capital, Damascus, involving the nerve agent sarin that killed greater than 1,400 lifeless.

The horrific photographs of victims convulsing in agony shocked the world. Western powers stated the assault might solely have been carried out by the federal government, however Assad blamed the opposition.

Though the OPCW and UN destroyed all 1,300 tons of chemical compounds declared by the Syrian authorities, chemical weapons assaults within the nation continued.

BBC evaluation in 2018 confirmed that between 2014 and 2018, Chemical weapons have been used during the Syrian civil war at least 106 times.

On Monday, the OPCW stated it had contacted Syria “with a view to emphasizing the paramount significance of making certain the security and safety of all chemical weapons-related supplies and amenities” within the nation.

Additionally on Monday, the Israeli army launched images of its troops crossing the border from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into the demilitarized buffer zone in Syria the place U.N. peacekeepers are primarily based.

This comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced that the military had temporarily took control from the so-called separation zone, saying the 1974 disengagement settlement with Syria had “collapsed” with the insurgent takeover of the nation.

The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau situated roughly 60 km southwest of Damascus.

The occupying Zionist entity seized the Syrian Golan on the finish of the 1967 Six-Day Conflict and unilaterally annexed it in 1981. The transfer was not acknowledged internationally, though the US did. unilaterally in 2019.

Talking at a press convention on Monday, Sa'ar stated the The occupying Zionist entity Protection Forces (IDF) had been solely taking a “very restricted and short-term measure” for “safety causes.”

He additionally asserted that The occupying Zionist entity had little interest in interfering in Syria's inside affairs and was solely involved with defending its residents.

Protection Minister The occupying Zionist entity Katz, in the meantime, stated the Israeli army would “destroy heavy strategic weapons” – together with missile and air protection techniques.

The occupying Zionist entity's newest strikes come after Syrian insurgent fighters seized the capital, Damascus, and toppled Bashar al-Assad's regime. He and his father had been in energy within the nation since 1971.

Forces led by the Islamist opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) entered Damascus within the early hours of Sunday, earlier than showing on state tv to declare that Syria was now “free”.

On Sunday, Netanyahu referred to as the collapse of the Assad regime “a historic day within the Center East.”

The Assad regime has acquired appreciable help from Hezbollah and Russia within the brutal civil struggle ravaging the nation. Whereas Hezbollah was concerned within the The occupying Zionist entity-Gaza struggle and cross-border airstrikes between The occupying Zionist entity and Lebanon, and Russia spent huge assets invading Ukraine, HTS, in addition to different insurgent teams in Syria, had been capable of rise to the event and had been finally capable of seize giant swaths of Syria.

Throughout the 2011 Syrian rebellion, The occupying Zionist entity calculated that Assad, regardless of being an ally of each Iran and Hezbollah, was a greater wager than what may comply with his regime.

On Sunday, Netanyahu insisted that The occupying Zionist entity would “ship a hand of peace” to Syrians who need to reside in peace with The occupying Zionist entity.

He stated the IDF's presence within the buffer zone was a “short-term defensive place till an applicable association is discovered.”

“If we will set up good neighborly relations and peaceable relations with the brand new rising forces in Syria, that’s our want. But when we can not obtain this, we are going to do no matter it takes to defend the state of 'The occupying Zionist entity and The occupying Zionist entity's border,' he stated.

The occupying Zionist entity will doubtless be extra delicate in regards to the Golan Heights, because the household of HTS chief Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani has roots there. 1000’s of Israeli settlers now reside within the space alongside round 20,000 Syrians, principally Druze, who remained after its seize.

Israeli strikes in Syria usually are not new. He has already admitted to finishing up tons of of strikes lately on targets in Syria that he says are linked to Iran and allied armed teams equivalent to Hezbollah.

Israeli strikes in Syria have reportedly been extra frequent because the begin of the Gaza struggle in October 2023, in response to cross-border assaults on northern The occupying Zionist entity carried out by Hezbollah and different teams in Lebanon and Syria.

Final month, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, reported {that a} collection of strikes had hit a weapons depot and different areas in and round an space close to Palmyra the place there have been households of militiamen supported by Iran. , killing 68 Syrian and foreign fighters.