DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Palestinian resistance groups have condemned the latest missile strikes by the Zionist regime in the vicinity of the Syrian capital city of Damascus, expressing their staunch support for any retaliatory measure that the Arab country would adopt against the Zionist regime.
Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanou condemned the attack, saying the aggression exhibited the unlawfulness of the Zionist regime, and stressed the need for decisive and necessary steps to prevent recurrence of such assaults.
Daoud Shihab, a spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement, also said, “We support any decision by Syria to respond to the Zionist regime’s aggression on Damascus.”
Separately, Yemeni Ambassador to Damascus Abdullah Ali Sabri expressed his country’s full solidarity with Syria in the face of recurrent Zionist attacks, denouncing the latest missile strikes as blatant violation of the country’s sovereignty and international law.
“We condemn the brutal attack amid the complicity of the international community, and affirm Syria’s legitimate right to respond,” he pointed out.
Syria’s air defenses intercepted and confronted a missile attack by the Zionist regime on the capital Damascus’ countryside.
Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network carried the report early Wednesday, citing local Syrian sources.
The Syrian missile defense systems, the sources said, managed to destroy most of the incoming projectiles midair.
Reuters cited the Zionist regime’s military as saying one of the Syrian missiles flew out of the Syrian airspace, exploding over the occupied territories’ skies and setting off the sirens there.
Syria and the Zionist regime are technically at war due to the latter’s occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967.
The Zionist regime maintains a significant military presence in the territory, which it uses as one of its launchpads for attacks against the Syrian soil.
The attacks started to grow significantly in scale and frequency after 2011, when Syria found itself in the grip of foreign-backed terrorism.
The occupying regime claims that its attacks target alleged supplies that are headed for the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah. However, the strikes have targeted reinforcement belonging to Syria’s military and its allies.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry says the activities and arbitrary measures of U.S. occupation troops continue to undermine peace and stability in Syria, and that the security situation in areas controlled by American forces and their allied terrorists is alarming.
“The activities of U.S. troops, who are illegitimately deployed to Syrian territories, continue to have negative influence on the status quo in the country. Security situation in areas on the eastern bank of the Euphrates, which is controlled by U.S.-backed forces, is critical,” Oleg Zhuravlev, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides, said on Tuesday.
“Over the past three days, ten terror attacks and acts of sabotage have been carried out in the region. Eighteen people have lost their lives and 25 others have been injured as well,” he added.
Zhuravlev noted that two Syrian army soldiers have been shot and wounded by terrorist snipers in the al-Fatatuat and Kuljok areas of the northern province of Idlib.