The Israeli authorities have assured that among the places bombed during the last hours in Syria include facilities where there were supposedly chemical weapons and long-range projectilesafter sending troops to Syrian territory after the fall of Bashar al Assad’s regime due to the lightning offensive of jihadists and rebels.
“The only interest we have is the security of Israel and its citizens,” said the Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar. “That is why we have attacked strategic weapons systems, for example what remains of chemical weapons, missiles and long-range rockets, so that they do not fall into the hands of extremists,” he added.
Just hours before, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz had ordered the Army to complete the consolidation of control of the “buffer zone” created beyond the occupied Golan Heights and the creation of a security zone free of strategic weapons and “terrorist infrastructure” in southern Syria.
Thus, he called on the Army to act to eliminate “strategic weapons” present in Syria, including surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft systems, cruise missiles and surface-to-surface projectiles, to prevent them from falling into the hands of groups that may be hostile to Israel after the fall of the Al Assad regime.
On the other hand, Saar has called for an end to “the attacks against the Kurds”, whom he has described as “a force of stability in the country”, in the midst of the offensive by rebels supported by Turkey against the Syrian Democratic Forces ( FDS), launched just a few hours after the fall of Damascus and the flight of Al Assad.
“It is a commitment of the international community to those who bravely fought against the Islamic State and defeated the Islamic State and it is also a commitment to the future of Syria, since the Kurds are a force of stability in the country,” he said. before noting that Israel has discussed this matter with United States and other countries.
The offensive in Syria, launched on November 27 from the province of Idlib and led by Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), has allowed jihadists and rebels take the capital, Damascus, and put an end to the regime of the Al Assad family, in power since 1971, in the face of a constant withdrawal of government troops, backed by Russia and Iran.
