The Israeli enemy staged several air strikes on Syria on Sunday, as its military occupied Jabal Al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon) near the Golan Heights and warned Syrians living in five villages close to the occupied portion of the strategic area to “stay home”.
The Israeli air force carried out dozens of aerial attacks that targeted several areas across the Arab country including the capital, hours after the armed opposition, led by Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), entered Damascus.
Reuters news agency cited two regional security sources as saying that the target of the Israeli attacks on the Syrian capital yesterday were a security complex and a research center.
They told Reuters that the three raids caused extensive damage to the main customs headquarters and buildings adjoining the military intelligence offices within the security complex. The research facility was also damaged.
The complex is located in the Kafr Sousa district of Damascus.
The video below shows an Israeli strike on the Mezzeh airbase.
Reuters reported quoting one of the sources that the strikes hit infrastructure used to store sensitive military data, equipment and guided missile parts. There were more Israeli strikes across Syria on Sunday.
The sources said the Zionist entity struck at least seven targets in southwest Syria, including the Khalkhala airbase north of Sweida city that the Syrian army withdrew from, as well as ammunition depots near Mezzah military airport, southwest of Damascus.
Meanwhile on Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces captured a portion of the Golan Heights in the 1967 war and annexed it. The occupation forces occupied Syria’s Mount Hermon with Israeli occupation forces advancing several kilometers into the Syrian Golan.
Israeli media reported that the occupation forces Israeli forces took control of the highest point in the Hermon Mountain inside Syrian territory, claiming that this point lies within the buffer zone and is under the responsibility of the United Nations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he ordered Israeli forces to grab a buffer zone in the Golan Heights established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria.
After Netanyahu’s comments, the Israeli military issued an “urgent warning” to Syrians living in Ofaniya, Quneitra, al-Hamidiyah, Samdaniya al-Gharbiyya and al-Qahtaniyah – all close to the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights.
Source: Syrian and Israeli media