JOURNALISTS in Damascus says Israeli air strikes that shook the Syrian capital on Friday night targeted the headquarters of the army’s fourth division and a radar battalion in the nearby countryside.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Damascus and other towns and cities across the country on Friday to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
The Arab League has condemned Israel’s grab for Syrian land in the buffer zone between the two countries.
Jordan is scheduled to host an emergency summit on Syria, which will be attended by top diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Turkiye, the US, the European Union and the UN.
Also, Israeli military forces have carried out patrols and raids inside Syrian territory near the occupied Golan Heights where they claim to have seized weapons including antitank missiles, bulletproof vests and ammunition.
Israel’s military said tanks, engineering units and paratroopers have been deployed to “points in Syrian territory and along the border”, in what the UN has said is an incursion into a “buffer zone” between Israel and Syria, and which contravenes the UN-endorsed 1974 disengagement agreement that ended fighting between Israeli and Syrian forces.
The commander of Israel’s Golan Heights Divisional Battle Team, Brigade 474, said in comments alongside the videos that his forces were deployed in the buffer zone to protect Israeli residents of the occupied Golan Heights and cared nothing for events in Syria.
“We have no interest in anything currently happening in Syria – except for carrying out the mission of protecting the residents of the Golan,” he said.
