‘Thirst for blood’: Syria says Israel terror attacks in Lebanon shows its ‘desire to expand war’
Syria has strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s recent attack on Lebanon, which led to the death and injury of thousands, saying the atrocity reflected the regime’s warlike and bloodthirsty nature.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Syrian foreign ministry denounced the “terrorist aggression and the new bloody crime committed by the Israeli occupation against civilians in Lebanon.”
The attack “reflects Israel’s desire to expand the scope of the war and its thirst to shed more blood,” it added.
The Tuesday attack saw explosives planted in wireless communication devices, known as pagers, being detonated in different locations across Lebanon, killing at least 12 people and wounding some 3,000 others.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement said in a statement afterwards that after examining all facts and available information about the attack, it held the Israeli regime "fully responsible for this criminal aggression.”
The Syrian ministry said by committing the deadly aggression, the “racist Zionist entity” scrambled "to spread killing and bloodshed in an unprecedented attack.”
It expressed Damascus’s solidarity with the Lebanese people and said the Arab country stood with them in their right to defend themselves, expressing confidence that the Lebanese nation would be able to confront the “treacherous Zionist aggression.”
The statement finally called on all countries and peoples around the world to condemn the atrocity.
Earlier this month, the ministry had likewise slammed Tel Aviv for harboring “a frantic drive towards further escalation in the region.”
The drive, it had noted, was evidenced by the Israeli regime’s systematic attacks on the Syrian soil and other regional territories, including its ongoing tremendously deadly aggression against the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank
Syria had, however, warned that such escalation threatened to “push the region towards dangerous slides with severe and unforeseeable consequences.”
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