Israel launches new operations in Syria after strike kills soldiers

Local sources study an Israeli cognition successful Kiswa, wherever six soldiers were killed by Israeli drones strikes a time before.

Israeli forces person conducted a bid of strikes connected a erstwhile service barracks successful Kiswa, southwest of the Syrian superior of Damascus, according to Syria’s state-run al-Ekhbariya TV.

Video verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking bureau showed Israeli craft attacking sites successful the colony connected Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a Syrian subject root told Al Jazeera that the Israeli service carried retired a landing cognition successful the barracks with the usage of 4 helicopters.

According to the source, the Israeli service brought successful dozens of soldiers and an unspecified magnitude of hunt instrumentality arsenic it spent much than 2 hours astatine the site.

No clashes took spot betwixt the Israeli forces progressive successful the landing and the Syrian service forces.

The cognition came a time aft an Israeli drone onslaught killed six soldiers adjacent Kiswa, and arsenic Syrian officials successful the authorities of interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa person progressively accused Israel of seeking to expand its power successful the region.

In a connection connected Wednesday, Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the onslaught “a gross usurpation of planetary instrumentality and the United Nations Charter”.

It added that the onslaught represented “a wide breach of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic”.

Israel has launched hundreds of strikes targeting subject sites and assets crossed Syria since the autumn of erstwhile person Bashar al-Assad successful December. It has besides expanded its concern of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarised buffer zone, a determination that violated a 1974 disengagement statement with Syria.

On Monday, Syria’s Foreign Ministry said that Israel had sent 60 soldiers to instrumentality power of an country wrong the Syrian borderline astir Mount Hermon, adjacent a strategical hilltop adjacent to the borderline with Lebanon.

Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad al-Shaibani decried the “military incursion” arsenic portion of an effort by Israel to beforehand its “expansionist and partition plans”.

The latest Israel operations travel deadly clashes successful the Druze-majority Syrian state of Suwayda, wherever 1,400 radical were killed successful a week of sectarian unit successful July.

Israel has since attacked Syrian troops and bombed the bosom of the capital, Damascus, nether the pretext of protecting the Druze people.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies