About 250 Israeli airstrikes have hit Syria in 48 hours, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Israel has suspended airstrikes across Syria, hitting key military sites amid a security vacuum after opposing forces he ousted President Bashar al-Assad.
Near the port city of Latakia, Israel targeted an air defense facility and damaged Syrian naval vessels as well as military warehouses. In and around the capital, Damascus, hitting targeted military bases, research centers and electronic warfare administration.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a war monitor, said Israel had “destroyed the most important military sites in Syria, including Syrian airports and their warehouses, aircraft squadrons , radars, military signal stations, and many military and military bases in Syria. various places in most of the Syrian governorates”.
Israel, which borders Syria, sent troops to a buffer zone in the eastern Golan Heights occupied by Israel after the fall of al-Assad, in what Foreign Minister Gideon Saar described as a “limited and temporary measure” to “security reasons”. It has also carried out “around 250 airstrikes on Syrian territory” over the past 48 hours with the aim of destroying the military capabilities of the former regime, according to SOHR.
“Israel's attacks on Syria are systematic,” said Al Jazeera's Resul Serdar, reporting from Damascus. “They aim to destroy Syria's defense bases”.
Serdar said Israel's latest raids targeted three major airports – in Homs, Qamishli and Damascus – as well as military bases and other strategic military sites.
“Israel says they are doing this because they are concerned that these strategic facilities and military equipment could fall into the hands of the opposition,” said Serdar.
There was no immediate response from the incoming Free Syrian Army, which al-Assad's prime minister, Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali, agreed to hand over power to on Monday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US Muslim group, blasted the US government for its continued support for Israel despite the increasing attacks in the region, saying that “The Syrian people deserve to rebuild their country free from foreign occupation and oppression. “.
Pushing 'over' the Golan
The number of airstrikes came after Israeli troops also seized more land in a buffer zone near the Syrian Golan Heights.
The attack breaking a 50-year ceasefire agreement to Syria, a set up the buffer zoneaccording to United Nations peacekeepers.
Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, Marwan Bishara, said, “Israel has taken the opportunity that Damascus has been involved in regime change to expand its presence in the Golan Heights and possibly beyond”.
Israel calls it “temporary, but we know the consequences when Israel calls it temporary,” said Bishara. “In the West Bank, for example, it has been almost six decades”.
While Syria had been at war for more than 13 years, the fall of al-Assad's government came within days in a lightning offensive led by the opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
The Syrian parliament, formerly pro-al-Assad as the PM, said it supports “the will of the people to build a new Syria towards a better future governed by law and justice”.
The Baath party said it would support “a transitional phase in Syria aimed at protecting the unity of the country”.
