{"id":260686,"date":"2026-08-23T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260686\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:48:10","slug":"syria-says-israeli-strike-near-damascus-violation-of-international-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260686\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria says Israeli strike near Damascus violation of international law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syria has condemned an Israeli attack on the village of Beit Jinn, southwest of the country’s capital Damascus, which officials said hit a civilian vehicle and left several people injured.<\/p>\n

The attack was the second known Israeli strike on Syria in the past week, with Syria branding it a “violation” of its sovereignty and international law.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, the Israeli military said it had targeted a “terrorist” in the “final stages” of preparing attacks which posed an immediate threat to soldiers.<\/p>\n

The latest incident comes days after reports emerged Israel had struck a military airbase<\/a> close to the Turkish border, which Syria said threatened to escalate tensions in the region.<\/p>\n

After the earlier attack, Washington issued a rare rebuke of Israel, calling it an “unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability”.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Friday, the US ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, suggested that the strike could be “the Israelis baiting the Turks” in an attempt to draw Turkey into a conflict ahead of upcoming Israeli elections.<\/p>\n

Barrack’s comments led Israel’s far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, to describe his account as “full of inaccuracies”.<\/p>\n

Writing on X, Katz added Israeli forces were acting “in light of clear intelligence information about Turkey’s intentions”.<\/p>\n

Following Tuesday’s strikes on the Abu al-Duhur airbase, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a statement: “Israel and Syria agreed to a status quo in security matters, which Syria was on the verge of breaching by permitting Turkish troops to deploy at an airbase near Aleppo.”<\/p>\n

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Abu al-Duhur military base captured by anti-Assad forces in December 2024 [Anadolu via Getty Images]<\/p>\n

After the strike Turkey did not confirm whether any of its troops moved to the Abu al-Duhur airbase, which sits 70km from the Turkish border. However, Ankara rejected Israel’s suggestion that it posed a threat.<\/p>\n

Abu al-Duhur airbase has been out of service as a dedicated military airfield since 2013. Rebel forces seized control of the base as they swept through the country in December 2024.<\/p>\n

Israel occupies territory in southwest Syria it seized after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in 2024.<\/p>\n

Syria has been trying to rebuild its military facilities that were damaged during the offensive that saw Bashar al-Assad’s government overthrown.<\/p>\n

The Turkish military has provided assistance to Syria since the overthrow of Assad, while Israel continues to view both countries with deep suspicion.<\/p>\n

Al-Sharaa has forged closer ties with the West since coming to power, particularly the US and in November 2025 he became the first Syrian leader to visit the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syria has condemned an Israeli attack on the village of Beit Jinn, southwest of the country’s capital Damascus,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[37,99,2265,95,3623,70393],"class_list":["post-260686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-israeli-attack","tag-syria","tag-tom-barrack","tag-turkish-border"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117142074915117967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}