Syria: Fresh Israeli aggression an attempt to obscure failure in Gaza

Syria has condemned in the strongest terms Israel’s overnight airstrikes on several points on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said by attacking the Syrian territory Israel has displayed a desperate attempt to cover up its abject failures in the Gaza Strip.

“The Zionist entity committed a new act of aggression against Syria this morning in the hope that it can mask failure to achieve any of its declared objectives in the Palestinian enclave, resist facing realities and spark off a regional crisis,” the ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

It added, “Israel does not really understand that massacre of Palestinian children and deprivation of Palestinians of water, food and medicine will only cement the nation’s resilience in the Gaza Strip and across the West Bank.”

The Syrian foreign ministry went on to describe Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territories as the main reason behind the ongoing Gaza conflict, stressing that certain Western governments are complicit in Israel’s genocidal war and provide the regime’s authorities with impunity.

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“The United States and Western governments have given Zionists the green light to continue killing and aggression against Palestinian people,” the statement noted.

“It is high time we stopped Israeli massacre of Palestinians and frenzied attacks on Syria and southern Lebanon, before the war being waged by Zionists and their allies in the Gaza Strip spills over and spreads to new regions,” the ministry highlighted.

Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing an unnamed military official, said the Israeli strikes took place at around 1:34 a.m. local time on Saturday (2235 GMT Friday), and the missiles came from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights.

The projectiles struck some targets in the vicinity of Damascus, and that Syrian air defenses shot most of them down, the report added.

The strikes resulted in only “material losses,” SANA noted.

The upsurge in Israel's attacks against Syria comes following the Tel Aviv regime's bloody onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

According to the Gaza-based health ministry, over 15,000 Palestinians, including more than 6,500 children and 4,000 women, were killed in Israeli strikes. Many more dead are feared to be under the rubble.

Tel Aviv has also imposed a “complete siege” on Gaza, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.

Israel strike puts Damascus airport out of service: Syria

Israel has carried out airstrikes on Syria’s Damascus International Airport, putting the facility out of service and forcing incoming flights to be diverted elsewhere.

Israel frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.

The Israeli regime rarely comments on its attacks on Syrian territories, which many see as a knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government’s success in confronting and decimating terrorism.

Israel has been one of the main supporters of terrorist groups that oppose the democratically-elected government of President Bashar al-Assad since the foreign-backed militancy erupted in Syria.

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