Syria condemns Israeli airstrike, calls for international action
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned on Saturday evening the Israeli airstrike on Mezzeh neighborhood in the Syrian capital Damascus, which resulted in the killing of five members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“This barbaric aggression, in addition to the human genocide that the Zionist enemy is carrying out in the occupied Palestinian territories, proves beyond any doubt the criminal nature of this entity and its leaders,” the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry called on the international community to take immediate action to stop the strikes launched by Israel, saying the strikes “disrupt regional and international security and peace and violate the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and the goals for which the organization was established.”
On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike on a building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus killed five IRGC members.
Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, condemned the strike and vowed the attack would not go unanswered.
Israel and Iran have been engaged in a series of ongoing retaliatory strikes with the frequency intensifying since the outbreak of the war in Gaza.
On Dec. 25, 2023, Razi Mousavi, a prominent leader in IRGC was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the town of Sayyida Zainab, south of Damascus.