Syria
The IDF also targeted operatives from the Iranian proxy transporting weapons • Syria reports Israeli airstrikes on the coastal city of Latakia.
The security buffers in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria are “unequivocally” permanent, said Israeli Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fox.
The strikes targeted “military capabilities” belonging to the ousted Assad regime, according to the Israeli military.
The military targeted “strategic capabilities that remained” following the overthrow of Bashar Assad by Al-Qaeda-linked forces in December.
“The presence of military assets in southern Syria poses a threat to the State of Israel,” the IDF stated.
The visitors were “shooting from vehicles with half their bodies outside. Our houses have bullet holes on the balconies,” a local resident said.
“Instead of merely reacting to developments, we now see an Israel that actively shapes events,” Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak tells JNS.
The massacre of Alawites highlights the danger of radical Islam’s rise to power, Israeli officials and analysts warn.
“It is both necessary and the right thing to do to assist other minorities in a region where we will always be a minority ourselves,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
The group planned and managed its terrorist activities from the location, the IDF said.
Israel has warned al-Sharaa’s Damascus government against harming Syria’s Druze community.
“We will strengthen ties with the residents of the region.”
