Six Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli strikes near Damascus: State media

Israel has launched hundreds of strikes crossed Syria pursuing the autumn of the Bashar al-Assad authorities past December.

Six Syrian service officers person been killed successful Israeli drone strikes southbound of Damascus, Syria’s state-run El Ekhbariya TV reported, a time aft Syria condemned a caller Israeli “military incursion” extracurricular the capital.

Israeli drones targeted Syrian service positions successful the Damascus countryside adjacent the metropolis of al-Kiswah, the broadcaster reported aboriginal connected Wednesday.

Following the autumn of the Bashar al-Assad authorities past December, Israel has launched hundreds of strikes targeting subject sites and assets crossed Syria.

Israel 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.

Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said connected Monday that Israel had sent 60 soldiers to instrumentality power of an country wrong the Syrian borderline astir Mount Hermon, adjacent a strategical hilltop that overlooks Beit Jinn, adjacent to the borderline with Lebanon successful confederate Syria. Israel did not instantly remark connected the accusation.

Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad al-Shaibani accused Israel of establishing quality facilities and subject posts successful demilitarised areas to beforehand its “expansionist and partition plans”.

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared his imaginativeness for a “Greater Israel“, a conception supported by ultranationalist Israelis that lays assertion to the occupied West Bank, Gaza, and parts of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan.

A conjugation of 31 Arab and Islamic countries and the Arab League said the stance was a “blatant and unsafe violation of the rules of planetary instrumentality and the foundations of unchangeable planetary relations”.

The latest Israeli subject enactment successful Syria follows deadly clashes successful the Druze-majority Syrian state of Suwayda, wherever a week of sectarian unit successful July killed 1,400 people, earlier a ceasefire enactment an extremity to the bloodshed. Israel had carried retired strikes connected Syrian troops and bombed the bosom of the capital, Damascus, nether the pretext of protecting the Druze people.

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