Defence minister says military ships were destroyed on Monday and area will be set up in southern Syria without a permanent Israeli presence

Israeli forces destroyed the Syrian military fleet in an operation on Monday night as part of a broad campaign to eliminate strategic threats to Israel, defence minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday, during a visit to a naval base in Haifa.

“The IDF (military) has been operating in Syria in recent days to strike and destroy strategic capabilities that threaten the State of Israel. The navy operated last night to destroy the Syrian fleet with great success,” Katz said.

Reuters reports that in a statement he said Israeli forces were establishing themselves in the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and said he had ordered a “sterile defensive zone” to be created in southern Syria, without a permanent Israeli presence, to prevent any terrorist threat to Israel.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I don’t know what thought process leads to believing that bombing the capital of another country, which hasn’t attacked you, is self defense.

    The same twisted and ill mindset that claims “bombing refugee camps full of innocent men, women and children is self-defense”.

    The main issue is; The western countries, the USA and many other countries are either okay with it, agree with it, pretending to be blind or are unable to do anything.