Syria accuses Israel of launching attacks targeting army position
Israel launches attacks targeting army position in Syria
Israel launched targeted strikes at Syria's army position in the South, said the Syrian government and monitor on Friday (Apr 19) following reports of Israeli attacks in Iran's Isfahan.
Syria's defence ministry released a statement saying, "The Israeli enemy carried out an attack using missiles... targeting our air defence sites in the southern region" and causing material damage.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said that Israel hit the army radar position in the southern province of Daraa that had detected the entry of Israeli planes into Syria's airspace.
Head of the Britain-based Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman said that the air offensive occurred at the time "when the Israeli air force was flying intensively over the Daraa region".
Syria's foreign ministry condemned "in the strongest terms" Friday's "Israeli aggression and the attacks before it on its territory".
Syria called on "the international community and the United Nations... to take all deterrence measures to stop" the Israeli attacks, the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SANA.
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The latest strikes in Syria come amid reports of Israeli attacks in the Iranian city of Isfahan.
Iran, however, said that it had shot down several drones and that there had been "no missile attack for now".
Also read:West Asia crisis: Iran ‘not planning’ retaliation against Israel after attack near Isfahan
Several drones "have been successfully shot down by the country's air defence, there are no reports of a missile attack for now", Iran's space agency spokesman Hossein Dalirian said on X.
"Flights over Isfahan, Shiraz and Tehran cities have been suspended," state media reported.
US says ‘not involved in any offensive operation’
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday (Apr 19) said that America was "not involved in any offensive operation" and declined to comment on reports of Israel launching a retaliatory offensive against Iran.
"I'm not going to speak to these reported events... All I can say is for our part and for all the members of the G7 our focus is on de-escalation," Blinken told a press conference on the Italian island of Capri.
"What we're focused on, what the G7 is focused on, and again, it's reflected in our statement, and in our conversation, is our work to de-escalate tensions, to de-escalate from any potential conflicts," he said.
(With inputs from agencies)