SANA’A (Dispatches) – The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has called on Syrian forces to adopt a policy of “effective deterrence” against the Zionist regime’s acts of aggression, after the occupying regime’s military said it had launched artillery attacks on southern Syria.

“Our Syrian brethren are expected to enforce a policy of effective deterrence that would stop the Zionist enemy from (taking) any kind of hostile measure against the country,” Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a televised speech broadcast live from the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a late on Saturday.

He warned the occupying regime against its recurrent strikes on Syrian territories, asserting that its continued acts of aggression will not go unpunished.

“The Zionist regime should know that for every attack it carries out in Syria, it will be hit inside the occupied territories,” Houthi said.

Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that the country’s air defenses had thwarted another Israeli act of aggression against the war-ravaged Arab country, and shot down a number of “hostile” missiles in the skies over the southern sector of the nation.

The media outlet, citing a military source, reported that the Zionist regime’s military fired several missiles from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights at areas in southern Syria at around 5 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) on Sunday, but most of the projectiles were intercepted and destroyed before hitting any of their targets.

It added that the missiles caused some material damage in the targeted areas.

The occupying regime’s military said it had launched artillery attacks on Syria after several rockets were fired from Syrian territory toward northern parts of the occupied territories, none of which caused damage or casualties.

The cross-border exchanges early on Sunday came as violence escalates on multiple fronts, including in Gaza, Lebanon, occupied East Al-Quds and the occupied West Bank.

The rocket fire from Syria comes against the backdrop of soaring Zionist-Palestinian tensions triggered by Zionist troops’ raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and Palestinian worshipers observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Violent scenes from the attacks prompted resistance fighters in Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip to fire a barrage of rockets into Israeli-occupied lands.

 

Lebanon Lodges Complaint 

 

Meanwhile, Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib filed a complaint with the UN Security Council (UNSC) and UN Secretary-General António Guterres against the Zionist regime after the regime said it had struck positions belonging to the Palestinian resistance group Hamas in southern Lebanon.

According to Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA), Bou Habib held a meeting with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati , after which he instructed the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York to submit an official complaint to the UN Security Council and the UN chief regarding the impact of the Zionist regime’s bombing and deliberate aggression at Friday dawn in areas in southern Lebanon.

The top Lebanese diplomat called the Israeli aggression a flagrant violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and a deliberate breach of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against Lebanon in 2006, calls on Tel Aviv to respect Beirut’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. 

The Zionist bombardment in the early hours of Friday followed a spate of rocket launches from southern Lebanon as tensions soared after Zionist troops stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of Al-Quds twice this week, and violently attacked Palestinian worshippers marking the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Hours earlier, there were explosions in the besieged Gaza Strip after the Zionist military launched air raids on several targets in the coastal enclave.