GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has called for formation of a united front against the Zionist regime’s acts of aggression, after at least three Syrian soldiers were killed and three others wounded in “multiple” missile attacks on Syria.
Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for Hamas, said in a statement that the “terrorist Zionist occupation” is expanding its aggression against the Palestinian people following its latest wave of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, the deliberate killing of civilians, assassination operations in the West Bank, and the incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque.
“It has now committed a new act of aggression through the barbaric bombardment of the brotherly Arab Republic of Syria,” Qassem said.
He underscored that the ongoing and extended Zionist terrorism in the Middle East must be confronted by means of a unified stance from all forces within the Muslim world.
“Regional nations should stand up to the regime and end such crimes,” Qassem said.
The Syrian military says three servicemen have been killed as the Arab country’s air defenses confronted ‘hostile’ Zionist targets over the city of Tartus and the nearby mountain range of Qalamoun.
Citing its correspondent in the area, Iran’s Arabic-language news network al-Alam said the Israeli missiles had targeted the southern part of Tartus, on the western coastline of Syria.
“The aggression led to the death of three soldiers, the wounding of three others,” it added.
The attacks on Damascus were carried out from the direction of southeast Beirut, while the attacks on Tartous came from the Mediterranean Sea.
In addition to the deaths, the attacks caused some “material damage,” the military source told SANA.
Syria has been in the grip of foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Zionist regime and its Western and regional allies aid terrorist groups that continue to wreak havoc in the country.
The occupying regime frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.
The occupying regime rarely comments on its cowardly attacks on Syrian territories, which many see as a knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government’s success in confronting and decimating terrorism.