Recently, the conflict between Israel and Syria has escalated again, and the Israeli army has dispatched warplanes to launch air strikes in southern Syria, targeting the strongholds of the Syrian army. According to the Syrian side, the airstrikes killed eight soldiers of the ** Army, injured seven soldiers, and damaged some facilities and supplies. The Israeli side said that the airstrikes were in response to the Syrian side's earlier firing of rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
According to the Syrian state news agency, citing Syrian military sources, on the 25th local time, Israel launched airstrikes from the direction of the Golan Heights on a number of military positions of the ** army in Daraa province in southern Syria. The Syrian military said that in addition to the deaths and injuries of Syrian soldiers, the attack also caused damage to some facilities and materials.
In this regard, the Israel Defense Forces said that the Israeli army dispatched warplanes to launch air strikes on southern Syria, targeting the military infrastructure and mortar launch sites of the Syrian army, which was in response to Syria's rocket launch on the Israeli-occupied areas of the Golan Heights on the evening of the 24th. The Israeli army said in a statement that the Israeli army dispatched a number of fighter jets and armed forces to bomb a number of military targets of the Syrian army in southern Syria, including observation posts, intelligence collection systems, command and dispatch systems, and anti-aircraft artillery facilities.
The Golan Heights is a narrow strip of land in southwestern Syria. Israel occupied this strategic location in the 1967 Third Middle East War, exercising control and jurisdiction over it and refusing to return it to Syria. The international community generally does not recognize the region as Israeli territory. Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, the Israeli army has repeatedly attacked targets in Syria under the pretext of striking Iranian military installations. Both Syria and Iran have denied that Iran has troops in Syria, saying that Iran has only sent military advisers at the invitation of Syria. On December 25 this year, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who served as a military adviser in Syria, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The airstrikes are the second in recent conflict between Israel and Syria. On December 21, the Israeli Air Force launched airstrikes on multiple targets near the Syrian capital, Damascus, and Syrians claimed to have successfully intercepted most of the missiles, but three soldiers were still killed and one wounded. Israel claimed that the airstrikes were aimed at preventing Iran from sending ** to Allah in Lebanon.
The situation in the Middle East has been tense, and conflicts between Israel and Syria have been constantly occurring. The two sides accuse each other of provoking the incident, but they are unwilling to engage in peaceful dialogue under the mediation of the international community. Such a confrontational situation is not conducive to peace and stability in the Middle East and is not in the fundamental interests of both sides. It is hoped that the two sides can exercise restraint and resolve their differences through political and diplomatic channels, so as to avoid further escalation of the conflict and cause more loss of life and property.