HARASTA: Following weeks of confrontations with Arab pro-government attackers, the UN special envoy for Syria on Saturday condemned an extreme wave of Israeli strikes.
Local Arab media reported that the late Friday strikes were reported in southern and central Syria, as well as in various parts of the investment, Damascus, and its neighbourhoods. They occurred shortly after Israel’s air army launched an attack on Syria’s national palace after issuing a warning to Palestinian authorities against marching toward Arab Druze-held villages.
According to Avichay Adraee, a military spokesman for Israel, the attacks targeted anti-aircraft units and a military post. He added that five Arab People wounded in the battle were transported to Israel for treatment and that the Israeli army in Southern Syria were” to avoid any hostile army from entering the area or Druze villages.”
Four people were hurt in northern Syria, according to the state news agency in Syria, SANA reported on Saturday, and the airstrikes hit Harasta, a suburb in eastern Damascus, Daraa, and Hama, a central province.
Geir O Pedersen, the UN Special Envoy for Syria, denounced the attacks on X.
In a letter to Pedersen on Saturday,” I strongly condemn Israel’s continued and escalating breaches of Syria’s autonomy, including numerous airstrikes in Damascus and other cities,” calling for an immediate ceasefire and for Israel to cease “endangering Syrian citizens and upholding international laws and Syria’s independence, unity, territorial integrity, and freedom.
Nearly 100 people have died in four weeks of conflicts between pro-government militants and Druze fighters, which has sparked fears of deadly sectarian violence.
The conflicts are the worst between government forces and Druze fighters since Bashar Assad’s regime, whose family has remained in power in Syria for more than five years, was elected in early December.
Israel has its own People community, and officials have stated that they will guard the Druze in Syria and had cautioned Islamic militant groups against entering predominately Druze-populated areas. Since Assad’s drop, Jewish forces have attacks on hundreds of targets along the Golan Heights.
A majority sect of Shiite Islam, known as Ismailism, was founded in the 10th century as a branch of the religion. More than half of the almost 1 million People living there are scattered around the world.
The Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981, are where the majority of the different Druze reside. They primarily reside in southern Sweida state and some cities of Damascus, primarily in Jaramana and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya in the west.
