DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Syria’s Foreign Minister says the Zionist regime was “playing with fire”, following the regime’s strikes near Damascus and on Aleppo’s International Airport.
The strikes resulted in material damage only, according to state news agency, SANA, which said Syria’s air defenses shot down a number of the regime’s missiles around the capital.
There was no immediate comment from the occupying regime officials.
In comments reported by SANA on Thursday, Syria’s top diplomat, Faisal al-Meqdad, said the occupying regime was threatening regional security.
“Israel is playing with fire and is putting the regional military and security situations at risk of an explosion,” the agency reported him as saying.
“Syria will not remain silent regarding the repeated Israeli attacks and the Israelis will pay the price, sooner or later.”
The top Syrian diplomat underlined that the U.S. and Western governments should be held responsible for encouraging the Zionist regime to increase its aggression and threaten peace and security in the region and across the world.
Also on Thursday, the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry called on the United Nations Security Council and UN Secretariat to condemn the Zionist regime attacks on the country’s territory as a violation of sovereignty and a direct threat to regional and international peace and security.
“Syria draws the attention of the General Secretariat to the fact that this is not the first time the Israeli occupation forces have targeted public commercial and civil facilities or air and sea ports in Syria, endangering navigation, commercial and civil air and sea transport, as well as the lives and safety of civilians,” the ministry said in a statement.
The statement underscored that the occupying regime deliberately targets Syrian airports and civilian aircraft in Syria’s airspace.
“Syria preserves its full rights in holding the Israeli occupation accountable legally, morally, politically and financially for deliberately targeting the international airports of Damascus and Aleppo and causing all that sabotage and destruction,” it added.
Syria and the Zionist regime are technically at war due to the latter’s 1967-to-present occupation of the Arab country’s Golan Heights. The regime maintains a significant military presence in the territory, which it uses as one of its launching pads for attacks against the Syrian soil.