Syria Denounces Aggression on the Sudan

DAMASCUS, (ST)- Syria strongly condemns the Israeli jet planes aggression on the Sudan last Tuesday October 23th, an official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said on Friday.

“This aggression came in the framework of the continued Israeli attempts at undermining the territorial integrity and unity of the people of this brotherly country and destroying its economic capabilities,” the source said in a statement.

The source branded the Israeli aggression as a flagrant intervention in the internal affairs of the Sudan, stressing that these attempts were clearly manifested in Israel’s support to the armed groups in Darfur.

“Israel, in this aggression, has taken advantage of the dispersion of the Arab countries, some of them involved  in conspiring against the Sudan, supporting the armed terrorist groups in Syria and making deals with Israel at the expense of the legitimate historical rights of the Palestinian People,” said the statement.

It stressed that Syria considers this blatant Israeli aggression on the Sudan as “a violation of the international law and the UN Charter which guarantee the unity and sovereignty of countries.”

“Syria calls upon the Security Council, in response to the Sudanese Government’s demand, to condemn this blatant aggression and hold Israel accountable for its crime which resulted in killing and wounding many innocent Sudanese,” the source added.

It highlighted Syria’s stress that this blatant aggression threatens the international peace and security, particularly in Africa and the Middle East.

The statement reiterated Syria’s support and solidarity with the Sudan, the statement concluded.

According to Sudan Vision Daily, on October 24,  2012, the Sudanese Minister of Culture and Information declared that the Yarmouk munitions factory has been attacked by four Israeli war planes. In 2009, Israeli planes killed 119 East African migrants, alleging that the target was weapons smuggled through the Sudan across Egypt to Hamas.  In April 2011, another air raid against the Sudan killed two citizens.

This attack against the Sudan was carried out by the Netanyahu-Lieberman government that was described by the UK-based Israeli professor Avi Shlaim as ‘the most right wing, chauvinistic and racist’ in Israeli history. The word racist is key here, because a Likud MP has called the Africans in Israel ‘cancer’, after they were initially manipulated to replace Palestinian workers in Israel in the aftermath of the second Intifada.

M. Daoud/ M.A.  Al-Ibrahim