Israel says it has carried out more than 350 airstrikes in Syria; HTS leader says world ‘has nothing to fear’ – as it happened
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IDF says strikes were targeting weapons stockpiles and strategic infrastructure over past 48 hours; Ahmed al-Sharaa attempts to reassure foreign nations in TV interview

Israeli forces destroyed the Syrian military fleet in an operation on Monday night as part of a broad campaign to eliminate strategic threats to Israel, defence minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday, during a visit to a naval base in Haifa.

“The IDF (military) has been operating in Syria in recent days to strike and destroy strategic capabilities that threaten the State of Israel. The navy operated last night to destroy the Syrian fleet with great success,” Katz said.

Reuters reports that in a statement he said Israeli forces were establishing themselves in the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and said he had ordered a “sterile defensive zone” to be created in southern Syria, without a permanent Israeli presence, to prevent any terrorist threat to Israel.

  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Didn’t Israel occupy the Golan Heights, saying they need it as a buffer zone?
    And then they established a “demilitarized zone” between Syria and the Golan Heights, to “protect themselves”.
    Which they have now occupied with their military.
    And now they want another buffer inside Syria, to protect the buffer of their buffer.
    And they’re also bombing Damascus “defensively”.

    I don’t know what thought process leads to believing that bombing the capital of another country, which hasn’t attacked you, is self defense.
    But I guess we in the west are expected to twist our minds around the idea a little.