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Syria will "respond immediately" to any new Israeli attack against its territory, its deputy foreign minister told AFP on Thursday, after two reported Israeli strikes last week.
"The instruction has been made to respond immediately to any new Israeli attack without (additional) instruction from any higher leadership, and our retaliation will be strong and will be painful against Israel," Faisal Muqdad said.
He spoke in an interview with AFP in the Syrian capital. Senior Israeli sources said the strikes targeted weapons bound for the powerful Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, a close ally of Damascus. Muqdad denied that.
"They absolutely did not achieve their objective and they lied when they said they are targeting Hezbollah," he said.There is "no way Syria will allow this to happen again," he added.
Israel reportedly targeted military sites near the capital Damascus early on Friday morning and again early on Sunday morning, with at least 42 soldiers reported dead in the second strike.
The Jewish state has repeatedly warned it will intervene to prevent the transfer of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah, with which it fought a devastating 2006 war.
The strikes last week were the third time Israel is thought to have hit sites inside Syria since the beginning of an uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011. That first was in January of this year.
The uprising, which began with peaceful protests, has devolved into a bloody conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people, according to the UN, and displaced millions of Syrians.
The Non-Aligned Movement deems the recent Israeli air strike against Syria a flagrant violation of the international law.
In a statement released on Wednesday the Movements coordinating bureau urges the UN Security Council to bring Israel to justice for this act of aggression.
Specific measures should be taken to prevent similar incidents in the future which could lead to severe aggravation in the region and a large-scale war, the statement says.
On May 5th Israeli planes carried out several air strikes against Damascuss suburbs where two brigades of the presidential Guards were deployed.
Arms depots and a military research center came under attack as well.
The Golan Heights will soon turn into a front to resist Israeli aggression, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in Damascus on Tuesday.
Al-Assad feels that Israels recent aggression against Syria has shown the degree of involvement of the Jewish State, as well as some other regional nations and the West in the developments in Syria.
The official spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command, Anwar Raja, told reporters on Tuesday that the Syrian authorities have allowed Palestinian groups in Syria to launch military operations against Israel on the Golan Heights, so the groups in question will start planning such operations shortly.
The decision has been prompted by Israels recent airstrike on a research centre and military supply depots in a Damascus suburb.
Syria to 'respond immediately' to any new Israeli strike > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation
"The instruction has been made to respond immediately to any new Israeli attack without (additional) instruction from any higher leadership, and our retaliation will be strong and will be painful against Israel," Faisal Muqdad said.
He spoke in an interview with AFP in the Syrian capital. Senior Israeli sources said the strikes targeted weapons bound for the powerful Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, a close ally of Damascus. Muqdad denied that.
"They absolutely did not achieve their objective and they lied when they said they are targeting Hezbollah," he said.There is "no way Syria will allow this to happen again," he added.
Israel reportedly targeted military sites near the capital Damascus early on Friday morning and again early on Sunday morning, with at least 42 soldiers reported dead in the second strike.
The Jewish state has repeatedly warned it will intervene to prevent the transfer of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah, with which it fought a devastating 2006 war.
The strikes last week were the third time Israel is thought to have hit sites inside Syria since the beginning of an uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011. That first was in January of this year.
The uprising, which began with peaceful protests, has devolved into a bloody conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people, according to the UN, and displaced millions of Syrians.
The Non-Aligned Movement deems the recent Israeli air strike against Syria a flagrant violation of the international law.
In a statement released on Wednesday the Movements coordinating bureau urges the UN Security Council to bring Israel to justice for this act of aggression.
Specific measures should be taken to prevent similar incidents in the future which could lead to severe aggravation in the region and a large-scale war, the statement says.
On May 5th Israeli planes carried out several air strikes against Damascuss suburbs where two brigades of the presidential Guards were deployed.
Arms depots and a military research center came under attack as well.
The Golan Heights will soon turn into a front to resist Israeli aggression, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in Damascus on Tuesday.
Al-Assad feels that Israels recent aggression against Syria has shown the degree of involvement of the Jewish State, as well as some other regional nations and the West in the developments in Syria.
The official spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command, Anwar Raja, told reporters on Tuesday that the Syrian authorities have allowed Palestinian groups in Syria to launch military operations against Israel on the Golan Heights, so the groups in question will start planning such operations shortly.
The decision has been prompted by Israels recent airstrike on a research centre and military supply depots in a Damascus suburb.
Syria to 'respond immediately' to any new Israeli strike > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation
So, let's just wait and see his response.
