De facto new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa slammed Israelis’ attacks but said that his country cannot afford to go into a new conflict.
Israeli air forces have so far carried out dozens of attacks targeting military and ammunition sites across Syria, with a de facto Syrian leader warning of the incursion but saying his country does not want to enter a new conflict.
More than 60 Israeli air strikes took place over the last 12 hours,” Al Jazeera’s Result Serdar, reporting from the Syrian capital, Damascus, said, adding that Israel has conducted about 800 air raids across Syria since the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last week.
We heard a series of loud explosions that are almost routine here. Damascus and its periphery remain the focus of Israeli airstrikes; Serdar confirmed when asked whether ammunition depots and air defense systems have been hit in one district of Damascus.
“This is part of the Israeli strategy since the fall of the al-Assad regime, which was to leave the country without air defenses against their attacks,” Serdar said.
Israeli forces also destroyed roads, power lines, and water networks in the southeastern Quneitra region after people refused to go along with their orders for evacuation, according to Al Jazeera’s Monastir Abou Naboot.
Israeli tanks are now stationed in towns and villages in Syria’s southwest as the Israeli military expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights, said Nabout, reporting from Quneitra.
