News / Syria

Syria urges UN action after fresh Israeli airstrikes

Thursday, 02 November 2017 5:12 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 02 November 2017 5:47 PM ]

The picture, taken from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, shows smoke billowing from Syria after an Israeli aerial attack on June 25, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Syria has written two letters to the United Nations, calling on the world body to take swift action against Israel's attacks on the Arab country.

In the letters addressed to the UN chief and the Security Council chairman, the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry complained on Thursday about a recent Israeli airstrike on a copper factory for civil industries in the town of Hassia in Homs Province.

The Syrian ministry urged the UN Security Council to take "strict and immediate" measures to stop Israeli attacks.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group, claimed that Israeli warplanes had targeted an arms depot belonging either to the Syrian government or the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement.

PressTV-Syrian army targets Israeli jet over Homs

The Syrian army targets an Israeli jet with a surface-to-air missile over the country's Homs province.

Israel's Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz declined to comment on the strike, but repeated a threat to hit what he called “arms smuggling” to Hezbollah.

Syria's state television reported "an aggression" by Israel in Homs, adding that the army had "responded" by firing a surface-to-air missile at the aircraft. Israel's Channel 10 television said the Israeli jets were not hit and returned safely to base.

During the past few years, Israel has frequently attacked military targets in Syria in what is considered as an attempt to prop up terrorist groups that have been suffering heavy defeats against Syrian government forces.

On several occasions, the Syrian army has confiscated Israeli-made arms and military equipment from militants fighting pro-Damascus forces. Israel has also been providing medical treatment to the extremist militants wounded in Syria.

Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:

www.presstv.co.uk