The Syrian authorities denounced it on Friday More than ten civilians, including several children, were killed in an Israeli army raid In the town of Beit Yin on the outskirts of Damascus, where several clashes subsequently broke out … Israeli forces crossed the border to conduct an operation against alleged members of the Al-Yama Islamic group.
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned “in the strongest terms” this “criminal attack” carried out by Israeli forces, and accused them of a “blatant attack on the population and their property.” “This led to Confrontations between residents and the occupation patrolWhich was forced to withdraw from Syrian territory.”
Thus, he indicated that the Israeli army They responded with a “brutal and deliberate” artillery barrage after their raid “failed.” Which he described as a “war crime.” He added that this “caused a horrific massacre that claimed the lives of more than ten civilians, including women and children, and a large displacement of residents.”
He noted in a statement on his account on the social networking site He added, “They threaten security and stability in the region, as part of their systematic policy to destabilize the situation and impose an aggressive reality by force.”
In this sense, he repeated his words Demand by the United Nations Security Council and the Arab League To “take immediate measures to put an end to these aggressive policies and repeated violations of the Israeli occupation against the Syrian people,” including implementing “deterrent measures to ensure respect for international law.”
“Syria affirms that it will continue to exercise its legitimate right to defend its land and people by all means permitted by international law. These crimes will only increase your determination to defend your rights its sovereignty and its rejection of all forms of occupation and aggression.”
Although Damascus has not determined a specific death toll, the director of the health office in the Damascus countryside governorate, Tawfiq Hasba, has so far determined this. 13 people were confirmed dead and 24 others were injured Because of the “Israeli aggression,” according to what was reported by the official Syrian news agency, SANA.
For its part, the Israeli army confirmed the operation and indicated that the goal was to “retract suspects from the Islamic Yama Party,” a branch in Lebanon of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood organization and an ally of Hamas.
«The suspects were working in the town of Beit Yin in southern Syria. “They were preparing terrorist plans against the citizens of the State of Israel,” he noted in a statement, in which he said that “during the operation, many terrorists opened fire on members of the Israeli army, who returned fire,” and to that were added air force bombings.
The occupation army indicated that six soldiers were injured, including three in serious condition, pointing out that They were all transferred to Israeli territory and hospitalized. “The operation is complete. He added that all suspects were arrested and a number of terrorists were eliminated.
Al-Yama Islamic Group, a group founded in the 1960s as the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, participated with the Shiite Hezbollah militia and Palestinian armed groups in attacks against Israel as a result of the conflict that erupted after the October 7, 2023 attacks against Israeli territory.