Syria: Israeli aggression directly coordinated with Daesh’s attack

The Syrian Foreign Ministry says the latest Israeli regime airstrikes on several sites near the capital Damascus and a Daesh terrorist attack on an army bus in the Palmyra desert in central Syria illustrate clear and direct coordination between the two acts of aggression.

“It was not a coincidence that the Israeli enemy’s latest aggression on residential neighborhoods in the suburbs of Damascus in the early hours of March 7 took place only hours after the Daesh terrorist group committed a crime which claimed the lives of a number of brave Syrian Arab Army soldiers,” the ministry said in a statement.

It argued that the co-occurrence of the two criminal acts demonstrated close and direct coordination between them.

The Syrian foreign ministry went on to say that the Damascus government has warned about the repercussions of Israel’s repeated attacks on the Syrian soil, which have killed dozens of people, inflicted heavy losses on the country’s infrastructure, and instilled fear in the civilian population, particularly women and children.

The statement also called on the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfill their responsibilities and avoid double standards in responding to such “seriously risky actions.”

Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), citing an unnamed military official, reported that Israeli jets struck several sites near Damascus at around 5 a.m. local time (0300 GMT) on Monday, killing two civilians and causing material damage.

The official said most of the incoming missiles were intercepted by Syrian air defenses.

The incident took place only a day after at least 13 Syrian army personnel were killed and several others injured in an attack by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists on their bus as they were traveling in the central province of Homs.

The incident took place in the desert region of the city of Palmyra in the countryside of Homs.

“At nearly 1:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, a military bus was targeted by a terrorist attack with various types of weapons in Palmyra countryside of al-Badiyah, east of the Third Station,” SANA reported, citing military sources.

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