Israel hits HTS military target in Syria for 1st time since fall of Assad
Israel has reportedly carried out a deadly airstrike on a military target belonging to the HTS administration in Syria for the first time since the foreign-backed militant group took over the Arab country and unseated President Bashar al-Assad.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Wednesday that an Israeli drone hit an HTS military convoy in the southwestern province of Quneitra.
“An Israeli drone launched an attack targeting a military convoy... killing two members of the Military Operations Department” and one civilian, in southern Syria's Quneitra region, it said.
“This is the first Israeli strike targeting the security forces of the new authorities” in post-Assad Syria, said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the UK-based war monitor.
Separately, AFP cited an unnamed medical official that a local official from the Ghadir al-Bustan area was among the three killed in the Israeli airstrike.
Foreign-backed militants, led by HTS, took control of Damascus on December 8 and declared an end to Assad’s rule in a surprise offensive that was launched from their stronghold in northwestern Syria, reaching the capital in less than two weeks.
Following the collapse of the Syrian government, the Israeli military launched massive airstrikes for weeks against military installations, facilities, and arsenals belonging to Syria's now-defunct army.
The occupying regime has drawn widespread condemnation for violating Syria’s sovereignty and devastating assets that belonged to the Arab nation, which were essential for confronting any foreign acts of aggression, including those perpetrated by Israel.
In the wake of the fall of Assad, Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, also invaded a UN-patrolled buffer zone in southwestern Syria, taking over the Syrian side of Mount Hermon as well as a number of Syrian towns and villages.
Although the United States has already removed the long-standing $10 million bounty on the HTS leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, following a high-level US delegation meeting with him, his group is still on the US’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.
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