ISRAEL has pounded military planes and ships in Syria belonging to toppled President Assad with 300 airstrikes since Sunday.
Israel said the barrage of strikes was to stop the weapons and military craft “falling into terrorist hands” following the rebel victory in Syria.
Meanwhile, there are reports from Syria that IDF tanks have been spotted less than 20 miles from Damascus – six miles beyond the agreed buffer zone.
During the past 48 hours, there were extensive airstrikes in western and southern Syria, particularly in the vicinity of Damascus. The attacks were focused on military air and naval bases.
Israeli forces said their strikes in the early hours of Tuesday focussed on air defence systems and missile stockpiles.
According to Syrian security forces, on Monday night, Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets targeted at least three significant Syrian air bases where numerous military aircraft were stationed.
Strikes were reported on the Qamishli airbase, northeast Syria, and the Shinshar base in the west on Monday night.
Dramatic footage captured the moment Israeli strikes on the Qamishli base, thought to house Iranian missiles, lit up the skies yesterday.
The IAF is believed to have been targeting a convoy carrying ammunition that was obliterated in the strikes.
Reporters on the scene in Qamishli said the remnants of anti-tank mines and unexploded mortars could be seen amongst the wreckage.
A centre for electronic warfare, a research centre near Damascus and a naval port were also bombed, according to reports.
Strikes on Monday night hit former Syrian navy ships in the Syrian port of Latakia, at the top of Syria’s Mediterranean coast.
Footage has emerged showing orange fireballs erupting from what looks like small ships in a harbour.
The Syrian navy was a relatively small force made up of small ships such as missile boats, minesweepers and patrol craft.
Iran has condemned Israel’s “repeated violations of Syrian infrastructure” and seizure of Syrian land.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, characterized these military operations as being of a “limited and temporary” nature. He emphasized that these actions were carried out to tackle urgent security concerns.
He added: “Israel does not intervene in the internal Syrian conflict.”
Meanwhile, there have been reports of Israeli tanks spotted “less than 20 miles” from Damascus after they entered Syria for the first time in 50 years.
After Syrian rebels ousted the tyrant President Assad, Israeli forces seized the Golan Heights region and other defensive positions.
Netanyahu said that the “temporary” action was “to ensure that no hostile force embeds itself right next to the border of Israel”.
The Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the Israeli sweep was “to prevent an October 7 scenario”.
Syrian security sources said the Israeli military vehicles had reached Qatana, which is 10 kilometres east beyond the buffer zone separating Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria.
The IDF has denied that its forces have left the buffer zone separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
They said: “It’s not true.
“The forces have not left the buffer zone.”
The IDF Arabic media spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, doubled down on the denial.
He said in a post on X: “Reports circulating in some media outlets claiming that IDF forces are advancing or approaching Damascus are completely incorrect.
“IDF forces are present inside the buffer zone and at defensive points close to the border in order to protect the Israeli border.”
Israel is not the only country to have pounded targets in Syria since the fall of Assad.
The US carried out dozens of airstrikes across central Syria on terrorist ISIS targets over the weekend.
More than 75 “precision airstrikes” were carried out on Sunday as fears over a power vacuum forming in the wartorn country grow.
President Joe Biden warned the toppling of Assad’s regime was a “moment of risk and uncertainty” for the Middle East.
Biden warned that ISIS would exploit the regime change in Syria and attempt to reestablish itself.
He said: “We will not let that happen.”
Biden confirmed the US would continue its involvement in the region to establish a transition “toward independent, sovereign and independent.”
