According to the state news agency SANA, the ministry of foreign affairs in Syria has condemned an Israeli attack on Deraa, saying it had caused “significant human and material losses.”
The Israeli military reported on Tuesday that two projectiles had crossed from Syria toward Israel and fell in open areas of the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, despite the Syrian Foreign Ministry claiming that these reports were “reports that have not been verified yet.”
Syria, according to the ministry, does not and will not threaten any party there.
Who was in charge of the projectiles was unknown at the time.
The ministry continued, “We think there are many parties who may seek to destabilize the region in order to serve their own goals.”
Israel Katz, the country’s defense minister, claimed that Ahmed al-Sharaa, the president of Syria, was to blame for the projectiles.
A full response will be forthcoming, Katz said, and we hold the president of Syria directly accountable for any threat and fire directed at Israel.
A significant improvement in relations between states that have spent decades on opposing sides of the Middle East have recently begun indirect discussions to lower tensions.
A well-known organization called the Muhammad Deif Brigades, an apparent reference to Hamas’s military leader who was killed in an Israeli attack in 2024, was claimed responsibility by a number of Arab and Palestinian media outlets.
The group’s statement was unable to be independently verified.
After the projectiles were launched at Israel, the Israeli army claimed to have fired artillery at southern Syria.
Residents reported that Israeli mortars were firing toward the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the Wadi Yarmouk region west of Deraa province.
In recent weeks, there have been more hostilities in the area, including alleged Israeli military incursions into nearby villages where residents have reportedly been denied the right to plant their crops.
A large portion of Syria’s military infrastructure has been destroyed by Israel’s aerial bombardment campaign. In response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s removal in December, it has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights, citing lingering concerns about the country’s new government’s history. It has also taken more territory in the wake of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the past.
The Israeli military claimed to have intercepted a missile from Yemen around the same time Israel reported the projectiles from Syria.
The Houthis in Yemen claimed to have fired a ballistic missile at Israel’s Jaffa. The organization claims that its attacks on Israel were in support of Palestinians during the Israeli occupation of Gaza.
Source: Aljazeera
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