Syria condemns deadly Israel air strikes on ‘civilian sites’ near Damascus

Syria’s Foreign Ministry calls for ‘urgent action’ from the UN to halt ‘Israeli aggression’ against civilians.

Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has called connected the United Nations to enactment pursuing Israeli aerial strikes southbound of the Syrian superior Damascus, which a quality rights show said person killed 2 radical and near 5 others wounded.

Syrian state-run quality bureau SANA, citing a subject source, said the onslaught connected Monday evening astatine astir 5:18pm section clip (14:18 GMT) progressive Israeli warplanes hitting “a fig of civilian sites southbound of Damascus, resulting successful worldly losses”.

“The Israeli force launched an aerial onslaught from the absorption of the occupied Syrian Golan” heights, the subject root told SANA.

Syria’s Foreign Ministry condemned the latest attack, calling the Israeli rocket strikes connected civilian areas “criminal” and urged UN members to instrumentality swift enactment successful “halting Israeli aggression” and holding it accountable.

“The Syrian Arab Republic condemns the aggression launched by the Zionist entity this evening,” the ministry said successful a statement.

“Syria calls connected subordinate states of the United Nations to instrumentality urgent enactment and steadfast measures to halt the Israeli aggression and clasp its perpetrators accountable for their crimes.”

According to reports, Israeli pitchy fighters carried retired 3 strikes successful the Sayyidah Zaynab area, located astir 10km (6 miles) southbound of Damascus.

The archetypal onslaught deed the Kaou Sudan junction adjacent Sayyidah Zaynab, which was crowded with displaced radical who had fled Israel’s attacks connected Lebanon. The 2nd onslaught was successful the vicinity of a hotel, located to the southeast of Sayyidah Zaynab, and the 3rd onslaught targeted farmhouses successful the area.

The United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said 2 members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah question were reported killed and 5 were earnestly injured successful Israeli aerial strikes connected a workplace successful the area.

In a uncommon admission, the Israeli Air Force claimed aboriginal connected Tuesday greeting that it had deed “targets” successful Hezbollah’s quality office successful the “Syrian region”.

“Hezbollah’s quality office operates a subdivision successful Syria, which includes a postulation and appraisal system”, the Israeli Air Force said successful a station connected societal media.

“The onslaught connected the assets of the subject quality office successful Syria joins the attacks successful Lebanon successful damaging the quality capabilities of the violent organisation Hezbollah,” the aerial unit said.

Sayyidah Zaynab, considered a Hezbollah stronghold and the tract of an important Shia shrine, has been the people of erstwhile Israeli strikes.

Sources accidental it remains precocious connected Israel’s database of targets owed to the beingness of members of the Lebanese question who person fled to Syria.

Israel has carried retired hundreds of strikes connected targets successful Syria for years, mostly without admitting responsibility, and has intensified those attacks since the October 7 onslaught connected confederate Israel by Hamas fighters.

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