The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced Israel’s “occupation mentality” after the Israeli incursion into the Golan buffer zone.
“We strongly condemn Israel’s entry into the buffer zone between Israel and Syria as well as its advance into Syrian territory. (…) In this sensitive period when the possibility of achieving peace and stability appears which the Syrian people have aspired to for many years, Israel is once again displaying its occupation mentality,” the ministry said in a statement.
The Israeli army on Tuesday denied reports of an advance of Israeli tanks towards the Syrian capital Damascus, adding that its forces were stationed in a buffer zone on the edge of the part of the Golan Heights occupied and annexed by Israel.
The Israeli army “destroyed the main military sites in Syria” by carrying out more than 300 airstrikes in the country since the capture of Damascus by rebels and the fall of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory said on Tuesday of Human Rights (OSDH).
The UN special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, for his part, called on Tuesday for an end to Israeli strikes in Syria.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced Israel’s “occupation mentality” following the Israeli incursion into the Golan buffer zone.
“We strongly condemn Israel’s entry into the buffer zone between Israel and Syria as well as its advance into Syrian territory. (…) In this sensitive period when…
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