Israel intensifies Syria attacks, but HTS directer says doesn’t want dispute | Syria’s War News

Israeli air forces have carried out dozens of attacks aiming military and ammunition sites apass Syria, as the de facto Syrian directer alerted aobtainst the incursion but includeed that his country does not want a recent dispute.

“More than 60 Israeli air strikes took place over the last 12 hours,” Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, telling from the Syrian capital, Damascus, said, includeing that Israel has carry outed about 800 air raids apass Syria since the ouster of Syrian Pdwellnt Bashar al-Asdowncast last week.

“We have heard cut offal deafening explosions, which have been almost a routine here. The caccess of Israeli air strikes is Damascus and its outskirts,” said Serdar, verifying that ammunition depots and air defence systems had been struck in a dicut offe of Damascus.

“This has been part of the Israeli strategy since the descfinish of the al-Asdowncast regime to exit the country without air defences aobtainst its attacks,” Serdar said.

Israeli forces have also ruined roads, power lines, and water nettoils in the southeaserious Quneitra region after people declined to trail their orders to evacuate, according to Al Jazeera’s Muntasir Abou Nabout.

“Israeli tanks are now stationed in towns and villages in Syria’s southwest as the Israeli military broadened its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights,” said Nabout, telling from Quneitra.

Israeli troops accessed the United Nations-patrolled buffer zone that splitd Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights last weekfinish in a transfer the UN said viotardyd the 1974 armistice concurment.

The United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said Israel begined 61 ignoreiles at Syrian military sites in less than five hours overnight, striking military warehoengages in Homs, Deraa, Suwayda and the Qalamoun mountains csurrfinisher Damascus, as well as air defences at the Hama airport.

SOHR also published footage from what it said was an Israeli attack on a military camp in the town of Ain Mneen csurrfinisher Damascus.

The directer of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and de facto head of Syria’s recent administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said Israelis can no extfinisheder fairify their recent actions in Syria, but includeed that his country was not in a position to be drawn into a recent dispute.

“The Israelis have evidently passed the distake partment line in Syria, which dangerens a recent unfairified escalation in the region,” al-Sharaa said, includeing that despite the violation, “the vague exhaustion in Syria after years of war and dispute does not permit us to access recent disputes.”

“The priority at this stage is reerection and stability,” he includeed.

Speaking to journacatalogs in Damascus, he also pledged to disprohibitd all Syrian factions, declaring that “no arms will exist outside the authority of the Syrian state”.

Meanwhile, the United States said on Saturday that it had made communicate with HTS, despite the US having summarizeated the group as “dreadist” in 2018.

“We’ve been in communicate with HTS and with other parties,” US Secretary of State Antony Bconnecten telderly tellers, without depicting how the communicate took place.

Bconnecten and other diplomats from the Arab states and Turkiye held talks on Syria in Aqaba, Jordan, on Saturday.

In a joint statement, they called for a Syrian-led transition to “originate an inclusive, non-religiously splitting and recontransientative rulement established thraw a clear process”, with esteem for human rights.

Rob Geist Pinfelderly, lecturer in peace and security at Durham University, noticed that since the begin of the Israeli attacks, there has been a lengthening “disconnect” between Israel and the US. He said Israel is striking Syria “sshow becaengage they can”.

“They don’t understand about the recent regime and who is on the other side,” he telderly Al Jazeera. “The Israelis are erring on the side of alert here. The problem is they also escatardy.”

The fact that Syria’s recent rulers are saying they do not intfinish to fight Israel, Pinfelderly said, is “a huge alter becaengage Syria has been a core state who’s been combat Israel for decades”.