An Israeli military incursion near Damascus
Agencies – Damascus – Washington:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that it had documented more than 300 Israeli raids on Syrian territory since the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, at a time when security sources spoke of an incursion by Israeli forces up to 25 kilometers southwest of Damascus. The Observatory explained that it was able to document about 322 raids carried out by aircraft. The Israeli warplane has been on Syrian territory since the announcement of Assad’s fall on Sunday morning, while journalists in the capital reported that they heard explosions. The Observatory previously stated that Israeli raids across Syria “destroyed the most important military sites” in this country, including airports, warehouses, aircraft squadrons, radars, military signal stations, weapons and ammunition depots, scientific research centers and air defense systems, as well as an air defense facility and warships. In the port of Latakia in the northwest of the country. In addition, two regional security sources and a Syrian security source told Reuters, on Tuesday, that an Israeli military incursion into the south Syria reached about 25 kilometers southwest of the capital, Damascus. In the same context, two sources close to the Syrian opposition fighters said that the leadership of the opposition forces ordered its fighters to withdraw from the cities and to deploy units affiliated with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham from the police and internal security forces.
Internationally, the United Nations envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, said that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which led the attack that led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad, “has so far sent positive messages” to the Syrian people. For its part, the US Department of Justice said in a statement that charges have been brought against two A senior Syrian official during the era of ousted President Bashar al-Assad committed war crimes. The indictment, which was revealed, included accusations against former Syrian intelligence officials of involvement in a conspiracy to practice cruel and unfair treatment. Humanitarian detention of civilian detainees, including US citizens, during the Syrian civil war. Prosecutors identified the accused as former Syrian Air Force Intelligence officers Jamil Hassan (72 years old) and Abdul Salam Mahmoud (65 years old).
