Israeli warplanes carry out more airstrikes near Damascus
Israeli warplanes have carried out more airstrikes on Syria, defying a UN warning about the civilian casualties from continuous regime aggressions against the Arab country.
On Thursday, Israeli aircraft carried out at least two strikes on military targets near Damascus, reportedly hitting sites in the Al-Kiswah and Al-Muqaylibah neighborhoods.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The attacks came less than a day after similar Israeli strikes and a ground incursion killed 13 people.
Nine civilians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted Syria's southwestern Dara’a province late on Wednesday.
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said the strike hit the Jubailiyah Forest area between the cities of Nawa and Tasil.
It also reported heightened public anger and widespread mobilization in response to the "massacre" as Israeli forces penetrated more profoundly than ever before into Syrian territory.
An angry crowd gathered Thursday for the funeral of those killed in Daraa.
"This is an agricultural area... where no one threatens Israeli forces. We want to live in peace, but we do not accept attacks," said one, 48-year-old Khaled al-Awdat.
Israel has been extensively targeting Syrian military assets and conducting ground incursions into southern Syria since the HTS-led regime took power last December.
UN envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen on Thursday condemned the regime’s escalating military actions, warning that they undermine efforts to rebuild Syria and further destabilize the country at a critical time.
"Such actions undermine efforts to build a new Syria at peace with itself and the region, and destabilize Syria at a sensitive time," he said in a statement.
Since the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s government, the Israeli military has been launching airstrikes against military installations, facilities, and arsenals belonging to Syria’s now-defunct army.
Israel has been widely condemned for the termination of the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria and for exploiting the chaos in the Arab nation in the wake of Assad’s downfall to make a land grab.
The United Nations has condemned ongoing Israeli attacks inside Syrian territory and continuing violations in and around the buffer zone created as part of a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Damascus.
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