“The Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] attacked a short while ago military capabilities that remained in the area of the two Syrian military bases, Tadmur and T4,” Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic spokesperson, said on X.
Israel has intensified its resolve to destroy Syria’s military stockpiles since December 8, when a coalition of rebels spearheaded by the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led a lightning campaign on Damascus and overthrew Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
“The IDF will continue to act to eliminate any threat to the citizens of the Israeli state,” Adraee stressed.
Israel has also sent troops across the border into a buffer zone east of the annexed Golan Heights in southwest Syria, defending its decision as a precaution against political uncertainty in Syria.
In a joint presser with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Monday, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned against Israeli strikes in Syria and Lebanon.
“Military action must be proportionate, and Israeli airstrikes into Syria and Lebanon risk further escalation,” she said in Jerusalem. “We feel that these things are unnecessary because Syria is right now not attacking Israel and that feeds more radicalization that also is against Israel.”
During Assad’s reign, Israel carried out hundreds of strikes during the course of the brutal Syrian civil war, often claiming to target pro-Iran militias, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah group that supported the Syrian army at the time.
Last week, at least four Syrians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Syria’s Daraa province.
