During the early hours of Saturday, Israel has carried out a series of air attacks simultaneous about various areas of the Syrian territory, leaving a balance of at least a deceased civilian and four injured people, according to official sources of the Syrian government and human rights monitoring organizations.
The most lethal attack took place in the surroundings of Harasta, in the Rif Damascus regionwhere, according to the official healthy agency, a civilian has lost his life after a bombing carried out by Israeli aviation. The offensive was made after Combat aircraft The Syrian capital will fly over before addressing its goal. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom, said that in this area ten air attacks directed against Regiment 41 were registered, located in the vicinity of the Harasta military Hospital.
Simultaneously, other locations were also the target of the military operation. In the province of Hamanorthwest of the country, four people were injured after a bombing in the vicinity of the town of Shatha. The observatory explained that the attacks concentrated on the plain of Al gavea rural area that has been the scene of repeated air operations in recent weeks, in what is part of a sustained intensification by the Israeli forces.
The Southern Province of Deraa It was also reached. According to healthy, Israeli aviation attacked the village of Mauzebain and areas near the city of Ezra. At this last point, the chain SyriaTV He informed that the objective was regiment 175, and spread images in which an explosion is observed illuminating residential buildings.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in JerusalemAFP
The observatory described the offensive as the most intense since the beginning of the year, with more than one twenty incursions in a single day. Among the objectives achieved are military facilities close to the presidential palace in Damascus, which has been interpreted by the Syrian government as a direct provocation to state institutions and a violation of national sovereignty.
These actions occur in a context of growing internal instability. Since Tuesday, violent clashes have been unleashed between armed militias linked to the Drusa community and Syrian state forceswith a balance superior to the hundred dead. Israeli involvement has been justified, according to Prime Minister’s statements Benjamin Netanyahu and of the Minister of Defense Israel Katzas a measure of protection to the Drusa population to what they consider direct threats by the Damascus regime.
In sum, the Israeli offensive has not only left civil victims and material destruction, but also aggravated the already delicate political-selectary balance in Syria, where tensions between the different ethnic and religious communities remain a focus of instability to fourteen years of the beginning of the armed conflict.
